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By examining news and documentary media produced since September 11, 2001, Vavrus demonstrates that news narratives that include women use feminism selectively in gender equality narratives. She ultimately asserts that such reporting advances post-feminism, which, in tandem with banal militarism, subtly pushes military solutions for an array of problems women and girls face.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Table of Contents Introduction 1
1 Lifetime’s Army Wives, or, I Married the
Media-Military-Industrial Complex
2 Counterintuitive Mothering in the
Media-Military-Industrial Complex
3 “No Longer Women, but Soldiers”:
The Warrior Women of Television News
4 “This Wasn’t the Intended Sacrifice”:
Warrior Women and Sexual Violence
Conclusion: Banality’s Fatalities
Acknowledgments
Notes
Über den Autor / die Autorin
MARY DOUGLAS VAVRUS is an associate professor in the communication studies department at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. She is the author of Postfeminist News: Political Women in Media Culture.
Zusammenfassung
Considers two important questions: how the construction of gender, race, and class in media are productive of régimes of truth regarding war and military life, and how such constructions may also intensify militarism.
