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Gender, agency and war : the maternalized body in US foreign policy / / Tina Managhan



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Autore: Managhan Tina Visualizza persona
Titolo: Gender, agency and war : the maternalized body in US foreign policy / / Tina Managhan Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York : , : Routledge, , 2012
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (185 p.)
Disciplina: 327.73001
Soggetto topico: Women and peace - United States - History
Women and war - United States - History
Soggetto geografico: United States Foreign relations 20th century
United States Foreign relations 21st century
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Introduction: reading international relations through bodies, reading the maternal body as political event -- The vicissitudes of life: women's complex entanglement with peace and war -- Shifting the gaze from hysterical mothers to deadly dads: spectacle and the antinuclear movement -- Mothers, biopolitics and the Gulf War -- Grieving dead soldiers, disavowing loss: Cindy Sheehan and the im/possibility of the American antiwar movement -- Conclusion: the maternal body as alibi: understanding the centrality of the maternal body to sovereign representation.
Sommario/riassunto: This book traces practices of militarization and resistance that have emerged under the sign of motherhood in US Foreign Policy.Gender, Agency and War examines this discourse against the background of three key moments of American foreign policy formation: the anti-nuclear movement of the 1980s, the Gulf War of the early 1990s, and the recent invasion of Iraq. For each of these moments the author explores the emergence of a historically specific and emblematic maternalized mode of female embodiment (ranging from the 'hysterical' antinuclear protester to the figure of 'Superm
Titolo autorizzato: Gender, agency and war  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-283-44209-4
9786613442093
0-203-12618-1
1-136-45453-5
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910457389403321
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Serie: War, politics and experience ; ; 2.