Women As Weapons of War - Iraq, Sex, and the Media

Informationen zum Autor Kelly Oliver is Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of more than fifty articles and fifteen books, including Animal Lessons: How They Teach Us to Be Human ; The Colonization of Psychic Space: A Psychoanalytic Theory of Oppression ; Family Values: Subjects Between Nature and Culture ; and Reading Kristeva: Unraveling the Double-Bind . Klappentext From the female soldiers involved in Abu Ghraib to Palestinian women suicide bombers, women and their bodies have become powerful weapons in the Afghanistan and Iraq wars. In Women as Weapons of War, Kelly Oliver reveals how the media and the administration frequently use metaphors of weaponry to describe women and female sexuality and forge a deliberate link between notions of vulnerability and images of violence. Focusing specifically on the U.S. campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq, Oliver analyzes contemporary discourse surrounding women, sex, and gender and the use of women to justify America's decision to go to war. For example, the administration's call to liberate "women of cover," suggesting a woman's right to bare arms is a sign of freedom and progress. Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of Contents Preface ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction: Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n' Roll 1 Women-The Secret Weapon of Modern Warfare? 19 Sexual Freedom as Global Freedom? 47 Perpetual War, Real Live Coverage! 67 Innocence, Vulnerability, and Violence 109 Conclusion: Witnessing Ethics Again 151 Notes 167 Texts Cited 185 Index 195

Product details

• Authors: Kelly Oliver
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.01.2010
• EAN: 9780231141918
• ISBN: 978-0-231-14191-8
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Afghanistan, PHILOSOPHY / Political, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Philosophy, military history, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / National, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Women in Politics, International Relations, c 2000 to c 2009, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, United States of America, USA, Iraq, Asian History, Warfare and defence, Gender studies: women and girls, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Sexuality