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Gender, agency and war the maternalized body in US foreign policy
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Gender, agency and war [electronic resource] : the maternalized body in US foreign policy / Tina Managhan.
ISBN
9780415781954
9781136454530 (e-book)
Published
New York : Routledge, 2012.
Physical Description
vii, 175 p.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 01, 2019
Series
War, politics and experience ; 2
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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