Gender, agency and war : the maternalized body in US foreign policy / / Tina Managhan.
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| Superior document: | War, politics and experience ; 2 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | War, politics and experience ;
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| Physical Description: | vii, 175 p. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.