The Resource Sexing war/Policing Gender : Motherhood, myth and women's political violence
Sexing war/Policing Gender : Motherhood, myth and women's political violence
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The item Sexing war/Policing Gender : Motherhood, myth and women's political violence represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Massey University Library, University of New Zealand.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- 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
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (181 pages)
- Contents
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- 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
- Isbn
- 9781317962298
- Label
- Sexing war/Policing Gender : Motherhood, myth and women's political violence
- Title
- Sexing war/Policing Gender
- Title remainder
- Motherhood, myth and women's political violence
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1979-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Ahäll, Linda
- Dewey number
- 305.4201
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
- Series statement
- Popular Culture and World Politics
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Sex role
- Women and war
- Political violence
- Feminism
- Feminist theory
- Label
- Sexing war/Policing Gender : Motherhood, myth and women's political violence
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Color
- multicolored
- 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
- Control code
- ocn904518051
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (181 pages)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781317962298
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Note
- Taylor & Francis
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)904518051
- Label
- Sexing war/Policing Gender : Motherhood, myth and women's political violence
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Color
- multicolored
- 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
- Control code
- ocn904518051
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (181 pages)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781317962298
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Note
- Taylor & Francis
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)904518051
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