Gendering War Talk /

Gendering War Talk / / ed. by Angela Woollacott, Miriam G. Cooke.

In a century torn by violent civil uprisings, civilian bombings, and genocides, war has been an immediate experience for both soldiers and civilians, for both women and men. But has this reality changed our long-held images of the roles women and men play in war, or the emotions we attach to violenc...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
MitwirkendeR:
Boose, Lynda E.,
Cohn, Carol,
Cooke, Miriam,
Higgins, Lynn A.,
Higonnet, Margaret R.,
Hirsch, Marianne,
Matthews, Irene,
Michel, Sonya,
Rosenberg, Stanley D.,
Ruddick, Sara,
Spitzer, Leo,
Taylor, Diana,
Theweleit, Klaus,
Woollacott, Angela,
HerausgeberIn:
Cooke, Miriam G.,
Woollacott, Angela,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]
©1993
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library ; 159
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Physical Description:1 online resource (352 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Contributors
  • Part I. Presenting the Unpresentable
  • Chapter 1 Gendered Translations: Claude Lanzmann's Shoah
  • Chapter 2. Spectacular Bodies: Gender, Terror, and Argentina's "Dirty War"
  • Part II. War Mythopoeia
  • Chapter 3. The Threshold of Thrill: Life Stories in the Skies Over Southeast Asia
  • Chapter 4. Techno-Muscularity and the "Boy Eternal": from the Quagmire to the Gulf
  • Part III. Home/Front?
  • Chapter 5. Notes Toward a Feminist Peace Politics
  • Chapter 6. Sisters and Brothers in Arms: Family, Class, and Gendering in World War I Britain
  • Chapter 7. Daughtering in War: Two "Case Studies" From Mexico and Guatemala
  • Part IV. Engendering Language
  • Chapter 8. (Wo)-Man, Retelling The War Myth
  • Chapter 9. Not so Quiet in No-Woman's-Land
  • Chapter 10. Wars, Wimps, and Women: Talking Gender and Thinking War
  • Part V. The Politics of Representation
  • Chapter 11. Sexual Fantasies and War Memories: Claude Simon's Narratology
  • Chapter 12. Danger on the Home Front: Motherhood, Sexuality, and Disabled Veterans in American Postwar Films
  • Part VI. Interpretive Essay
  • Chapter 13. The Bomb's Womb and the Genders of War (War Goes on Preventing Women from Becoming the Mothers of Invention)
  • Postscript. Miriam Cookeand Angela Woollacott
  • Select Bibliography
  • Index

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