Gender, agency and war [electronic resource] : the maternalized body in US foreign policy / Tina Managhan.
Material type: TextSeries: War, politics and experience ; 2.Publication details: New York : Routledge, 2012Description: vii, 175 pISBN: 9781136454530 (electronic bk.)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 centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 327.73001 LOC classification: JZ1480 | .M3257 2012Online resources: Click to ViewIncludes 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.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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