Gender, agency and war : the maternalized body in US foreign policy - Managhan, Tina. (Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2012)
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Women and peace -- United States -- History; Women and war -- United States -- History; United States -- Foreign relations -- 20th century; United States -- Foreign relations -- 21st century