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

Author/creator Managhan, Tina
Format Electronic
Publication InfoMilton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge,
Descriptionvii, 175 p. ; 24 cm.
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SeriesWar, politics and experience ; 2
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2011036036
ISBN9780415781954 (hbk.)
ISBN0415781957 (hbk.)
ISBN9780203126189 (e-book)
ISBN0203126181 (e-book)

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