TY - BOOK AU - Managhan,Tina TI - Gender, agency and war : the maternalized body in US foreign policy T2 - War, politics and experience SN - 9781138111134 AV - JZ1480 .M3257 2012 U1 - 327.73001 23 PY - 2012/// CY - London PB - Routledge KW - Women and peace KW - United States KW - History KW - Women and war KW - Foreign relations KW - 20th century KW - 21st century N1 - 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 ER -