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Gender, Agency and War : the Maternalized Body in US Foreign Policy.
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, th...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken : Francis,
Taylor & amp ;
2012.
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| Colección: | War, politics and experience.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Gender, Agency and WarThe maternalized body in US foreign policy; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: reading international relations through bodies, reading the maternal body as political event; 1. The vicissitudes of life: women's complex entanglement with peace and war; 2. Shifting the gaze from hysterical mothers to "deadly dads": spectacle and the antinuclear movement; 3. (M)others, biopolitics and the Gulf War; 4. 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 representationNotes; Bibliography; Index.