Linda Åhäll

Sexing War/Policing Gender

Motherhood, myth and women's political violence

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

By using a poststructuralist feminist perspective and by analysing empirical cases from a Western 'war on terror' cultural context, Ahall seeks to demonstrate that motherhood is not simply a discourse denying women agency in political violence, but also central as to how agency in political violence is enabled. Motherhood and maternalism is 'everywhere' in war stories and, consequently, instrumental in order to understand how representations of female agency in political violence are gendered.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 180
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9780415720441
• ISBN-10: 0415720443
• Artikelnr.: 39595281

Autorenporträt

Linda Ahall is a Lecturer in International Relations at Keele University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Securitising Feminism or Feminist Security Studies?
Chapter 1: Stories of Motherhood
Agency and War
Chapter 2: Gender
Security and Popular Culture: A methodological approach
CAST: Empirical cases and list of characters
Chapter 4: Heroic Subjects
Chapter 5: Monstrous Abjects
Conclusion: Making Feminist Sense of Maternalist War Stories