Format:
Online-Ressource (217 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9780415825658
Series Statement:
Routledge Research in Gender and History v.16
Content:
This book is an innovative collection of original research which analyzes the many varieties of post-conflict masculinity. Exploring topics such as physical disability and psychological trauma, and masculinity and sexuality in relation to the ""feminizing"" contexts of wounding and desertion, this volume draws together leading academics in the fields of gender, history, literature, and disability studies, in an inter- and multi-disciplinary exploration of the conditions and circumstances that men face in the aftermath of war
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Cover; Men After War; Copyright; Contents; 1 Introduction: Men After War; 2 Continuing to Serve: Representations of the Elderly Veteran Soldier in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries; 3 Veterans, Disability and Society in the Early United States; 4 Confederate Defeat and the Construction of Lost Cause Nostalgia; 5 Stoics: Creating Identities at St Dunstan's 1914-1920; 6 Not Another Hero: The Eastern and Associated Telegraph Companies' Creation of the Heroic Company Man; 7 Italian Disabled Veterans between Experience and Representation
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8 The Detective as Veteran: Recasting American Hard-Boiled Writing as a Literature of Traumatic War Experience9 "A Fabulous Potency": Masculinity in Icelandic Occupation Literature; 10 Trauma in Bosnia: European Film and the Peacekeeper's Dilemma; 11 Weapons of War: Masculinity and Sexual Violence in Pat Barker's Double Vision; Contributors; Index
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Introduction / Stephen McVeigh and Nicola Cooper -- Continuing to serve: representations of the elderly veteran soldier in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries / Caroline Nielsen -- Veterans, disability, and society in the early United States / Daniel Blackie -- Confederate defeat and the construction of lost cause nostalgia / David Anderson -- Stoics: creating identities at St Dunstan's 1914-20 / Julie Anderson -- Not another hero: the Eastern and Associated Telegraph Companies' creation of the heroic company man / Wendy Gagen -- Italian disabled veterans between experience and representation / Maria Salvante -- The detective as veteran: recasting American hard-boiled writing as a literature of traumatic war experience / Sarah Trott -- "A fabulous potency": masculinity in Icelandic occupation literature / Daisy Neijmann -- Trauma in Bosnia: European film and the peacekeeper's dilemma / Ian Roberts -- Weapons of war: masculinity and sexual violence in Pat Barker's Double vision / Sophie Smith.
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781135964580
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780415825658
Additional Edition:
Print version Men After War
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
