ISBN:
9780415720441
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (181 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Popular Culture and World Politics
Parallel Title:
Print version Sexing war/Policing Gender : Motherhood, myth and women’s political violence
DDC:
305.4201
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Historically, there has been reluctance, from mainstream IR scholars as well as feminists, to seriously engage with women's agency in warfare. Instead, scholarship has tended to focus on women's activism for peace or to ignore women's agency altogether.This book rectifies this omission by exploring the cultural understanding of actors, agents and structures of war and how can we make sense of attitudes towards women, agency and war today. By using a poststructuralist feminist perspective and by analysing empirical cases from a Western 'war on terror' cultural context, Ahall argues that all typ
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of tables; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Introduction: securitising feminism or feminist security studies?; 1. Stories of motherhood, agency and war; 2. Gender, security and popular culture: a methodological approach; Cast: empirical cases and supporting roles; 3. Victimised objects; 4. Heroic subjects; 5. Monstrous abjects; Conclusion: making feminist sense of maternalist war stories; Bibliography; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
