Gender, agency and war : the maternalized body in US foreign policy / / Tina Managhan
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| Autore: |
Managhan Tina
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| Titolo: |
Gender, agency and war : the maternalized body in US foreign policy / / Tina Managhan
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| 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 | |
| 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 |
| ISBN: | 1-136-45452-7 |
| 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.: | 9910778904703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
War, politics and experience ; ; 2.