Robin Truth Goodman

Gender for the Warfare State (eBook, ePUB)

Literature of Women in Combat

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Gender for the Warfare State is the first scholarly investigation into the written works of U.S. women combat veterans in twenty-first century wars. Most recent studies quantify military participation, showing how many women participate in armed services and what their experiences are in a traditionally "male institution." Many of these treatments regard women as victims solely of enemy fire, even as they are also often victims of their own military apparatus and of their own involvement in global aggression. By applying literary analysis to a sociological question, Gender for the Warfare State views women's experiences through story and literary traditions that carry meaning into present practices. Goodman shows that women in combat are not just entering and being victimized in "male institutions," but are also actively changing the story of gender and thus the structure of power that is constructed through gender. Moreover, this book unveils a new narrative of care that affects economic relations more broadly and the contemporary politics of the liberal social contract.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 202
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317199298
• Artikelnr.: 46883514

Autorenporträt

Robin Truth Goodman is Professor of English and Director of the Literature Program at Florida State University. Her recent books include Literature and the Development of Feminist Theory (ed., Cambridge University Press, 2015) and Gender Work: Feminism After Neoliberalism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1 Women in the War Story: What Work Does Gender Do?
Chapter 2 From Decolonization to Body Bombs: Tragedy, Feminist Political
Theory, and the Female Militant
Chapter 3 A Critique of Violence in the Age of Mechanical Drone Warfare
Chapter 4 Killers and Spies: The Postcolonial Legacy in Real Estate
Chapter 5 The Woman, the Worker, the Warrior, and the Writer: The Military
Nation and the Making of Female Neoliberal Subjectivity
Conclusion