Gender, agency and war : The maternalized body in US foreign policy /
Tina Managhan.
- Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2012.
- vii, 175 p. ; 24 cm.
- War, politics and experience ; 2 .
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.