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Managhan, Tina

Gender, agency and war the maternalized body in US foreign policy - London Routledge 2012 - vii,175p. 24 cm. - War, politics and experience .

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.

ISBN: 9781138111134

LCCN: 2011036036

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Women and peace--History.--United States
Women and war--History.--United States

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
United States--Foreign relations--20th century.
United States--Foreign relations--21st century.

LC Class. No.: JZ1480 / .M3257 2012

Dewey Class. No.: 327.73001 / MA-G