04090nam 2200817 a 450 991095489600332120240417032133.09781438439778143843977697814619053321461905338(CKB)2670000000176320(OCoLC)784947993(CaPaEBR)ebrary10570807(SSID)ssj0000690229(PQKBManifestationID)11414127(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000690229(PQKBWorkID)10621782(PQKB)10358419(MiAaPQ)EBC3407065(OCoLC)809317697(MdBmJHUP)muse19936(Au-PeEL)EBL3407065(CaPaEBR)ebr10570807(DE-B1597)683085(DE-B1597)9781438439778(Perlego)2673586(EXLCZ)99267000000017632020110316d2012 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrImagining Russia making feminist sense of American nationalism in U.S.-Russian relations /Kimberly A. Williams1st ed.Albany SUNY Pressc20121 online resource (301 p.)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph9781438439754 143843975X Includes bibliographical references and index.Front Matter -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Imagining Russia -- The Geopolitical Traffic in Gendered Russian Imaginaries -- Freedom for Whom? Support for What? -- Death and the Maiden -- Crime, Corruption and Chaos -- “It’s a Cold War Mentality” -- The Cultural Politics of Cold War -- Casualties of Cold War -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- IndexCo-winner of the 2009 SUNY Press Dissertation/First Book Prize in Women's and Gender Studies, Imagining Russia uses U.S.–Russian relations between the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 and the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 as a case study to examine the deployment of gendered, racialized, and heteronormative visual and narrative depictions of Russia and Russians in contemporary narratives of American nationalism and U.S. foreign policy. Through analyses of several key post-Soviet American popular and political texts, including the hit television series The West Wing, Washington D.C.'s International Spy Museum, and the legislative hearings of the Freedom Support Act and the Trafficking Victims Protection Act, Williams calls attention to the production and operation of five types of "gendered Russian imaginaries" that were explicitly used to bolster support for and legitimize U.S. geopolitical unilateralism after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, demonstrating the ways that the masculinization of U.S. military, political, and financial power after 1991 paved the way for the invasion of Iraq in 2003.Feminist theoryNationalismUnited StatesMass media and nationalismUnited StatesMass media and international relationsNational characteristics, RussianNational characteristics in mass mediaSex roleNationalism and feminismUnited StatesForeign relationsRussia (Federation)United StatesForeign relationsSoviet UnionFeminist theory.NationalismMass media and nationalismMass media and international relations.National characteristics, Russian.National characteristics in mass media.Sex role.Nationalism and feminism.303.48/24707309045Williams Kimberly A(Kimberly Ann),1975-1811010MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910954896003321Imagining Russia4362605UNINA