NDU-K Library Catalogue

Girl in a jacket 
Image from Google Jackets

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.
Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.
Star ratings
    Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Book Kenya Military Academy JZ1480 .M3257 2012 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available KMA005966
Book Kenya Military Academy JZ1480 .M3257 2012 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available KMA007826

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.

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.
Copyright © 2023 [National Defence University - Kenya]. All rights reserved.