Gendering War Talk

Published by Princeton University Press 1993

Gendering War Talk

Edited by: Miriam Cooke and Angela Woollacott

Volume 159 in the series Princeton Legacy Library

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400863235

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In a century torn by violent civil uprisings, civilian bombings, and genocides, war has been an immediate experience for both soldiers and civilians, for both women and men. But has this reality changed our long-held images of the roles women and men play in war, or the emotions we attach to violence, or what we think war can accomplish? This provocative collection addresses such questions in exploring male and female experiences of war--from World War I, to Vietnam, to wars in Latin America and the Middle East--and how this experience has been articulated in literature, film and drama, history, psychology, and philosophy. Together these essays reveal a myth of war that has been upheld throughout history and that depends on the exclusion of "the feminine" in order to survive.

The discussions reconsider various existing gender images: Do women really tend to be either pacifists or Patriotic Mothers? Are men essentially aggressive or are they threatened by their lack of aggression? Essays explore how cultural conceptions of gender as well as discursive and iconographic representation reshape the experience and meaning of war. The volume shows war as a terrain in which gender is negotiated. As to whether war produces change for women, some contributors contend that the fluidity of war allows for linguistic and social renegotiations; others find no lasting, positive changes. In an interpretive essay Klaus Theweleit suggests that the only good war is the lost war that is embraced as a lost war.

Originally published in 1993.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
Introduction Miriam Cooke and Angela Woollacott Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xv
Part I. Presenting the Unpresentable
Chapter 1 Gendered Translations: Claude Lanzmann's Shoah Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
Chapter 2. Spectacular Bodies: Gender, Terror, and Argentina's "Dirty War" Diana Taylor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	20
Part II. War Mythopoeia
Chapter 3. The Threshold of Thrill: Life Stories in the Skies Over Southeast Asia Stanley D. Rosenberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
Chapter 4. Techno-Muscularity and the "Boy Eternal": from the Quagmire to the Gulf Lynda E. Boose Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
Part III. Home/Front?
Chapter 5. Notes Toward a Feminist Peace Politics Sara Ruddick Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
Chapter 6. Sisters and Brothers in Arms: Family, Class, and Gendering in World War I Britain Angela Woollacott Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	128
Chapter 7. Daughtering in War: Two "Case Studies" From Mexico and Guatemala Irene Matthews Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	148
Part IV. Engendering Language
Chapter 8. (Wo)-Man, Retelling The War Myth Miriam Cooke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
Chapter 9. Not so Quiet in No-Woman's-Land Margaret R. Higonnet Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
Chapter 10. Wars, Wimps, and Women: Talking Gender and Thinking War Carol Cohn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227
Part V. The Politics of Representation
Chapter 11. Sexual Fantasies and War Memories: Claude Simon's Narratology Lynn A. Higgins Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	249
Chapter 12. Danger on the Home Front: Motherhood, Sexuality, and Disabled Veterans in American Postwar Films Sonya Michel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	260
Part VI. Interpretive Essay
Chapter 13. The Bomb's Womb and the Genders of War (War Goes on Preventing Women from Becoming the Mothers of Invention) Klaus Theweleit Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	283
Postscript. Miriam Cookeand Angela Woollacott Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	317
Select Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	327
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	329

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