Gender, agency and war
Subtitle: the maternalized body in US foreign policy
By: Tina Managhan
Series: War, politics and experience -- 2
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9780415781954; 9780203126189
Subjects: Women and peace; Foreign relations; Women and war; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: reading international relations through bodies, reading the maternal body as political event; title: The vicissitudes of life: women's complex entanglement with peace and war; title: Shifting the gaze from hysterical mothers to deadly dads: spectacle and the antinuclear movement; title: Mothers, biopolitics and the Gulf War; title: Grieving dead soldiers, disavowing loss: Cindy Sheehan and the im/possibility of the American antiwar movement; title: Conclusion: the maternal body as alibi: understanding the centrality of the maternal body to sovereign representation.