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    • Author/Creator:Managhan, Tina.
    • Title:Gender, agency and war [electronic resource] : the maternalized body in US foreign policy / Tina Managhan.
    • ISBN:9780415781954
      9781136454530 (e-book)
    • Published/Created:New York : Routledge, 2012.
    • Physical Description:vii, 175 p.
    • Links:Online book
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    • Local Notes:Access is available to the Yale community.
    • Notes:Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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    • Variant and related titles:ProQuest ebook central.
    • Format:Book
    • Series:War, politics and experience ; 2
      War, politics and experience ; 2.
    • BibliographyIncludes bibliographical references and index.
    • Contents: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.
    • Subjects:Women and peace--United States--History.
      Women and war--United States--History.
      United States--Foreign relations--20th century.
      United States--Foreign relations--21st century.
    • Also listed under:ProQuest (Firm)