Gender, agency and war : the maternalized body in US foreign policy / Tina Managhan.
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TextSeries: War, politics and experience ; 2Publisher: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2012Description: vii, 175 p. ; 24 cmISBN: 9780415781954 (hbk.); 0415781957 (hbk.); 9780203126189 (ebook); 0203126181 (ebook)Subject(s): Women and peace -- United States -- History | Women and war -- United States -- History | United States -- Foreign relations -- 20th century | United States -- Foreign relations -- 21st centuryDDC classification: 327.73001 LOC classification: JZ1480 | .M3257 2012| Item type | Current location | Home library | Collection | Shelving location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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