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Informationen zum Autor 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 . Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Media representations that have emerged out of contemporary wars have been well documented. These treatments, however, have been less attentive to how cultural constructions of military personnel and war itself figure in the depiction of the incursions in Iraq and Afghanistan. Mary Douglas Vavrus argues that all these identity categories are integral to our understanding of those involved in war. Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of Contents Introduction 11 Lifetime’s Army Wives, or, I Married theMedia-Military-Industrial Complex2 Counterintuitive Mothering in theMedia-Military-Industrial Complex3 “No Longer Women, but Soldiers”:The Warrior Women of Television News4 “This Wasn’t the Intended Sacrifice”:Warrior Women and Sexual ViolenceConclusion: Banality’s FatalitiesAcknowledgmentsNotes
