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Gender, agency and war : The maternalized body in US foreign policy / Tina Managhan.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: War, politics and experience ; 2Publication details: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2012.Description: vii, 175 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780415781954 (hbk.)
  • 0415781957 (hbk.)
  • 9780203126189 (ebook)
  • 0203126181 (ebook)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 327.73001 23
LOC classification:
  • JZ1480 .M3257 2012
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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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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