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Sovereign Masculinity - Gender Lessons from the War on Terror (Hardcover, New)
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Sovereign Masculinity - Gender Lessons from the War on Terror (Hardcover, New)
Series: Studies in Feminist Philosophy
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After 9/11/2001, gendered narratives of humiliation and revenge
proliferated in the U.S. national imaginary. How is it that gender,
which we commonly take to be a structure at the heart of individual
identity, is also at stake in the life of the nation? What do we
learn about gender when we pay attention to how it moves and
circulates between the lived experience of the subject and the
aspirations of the nation in war? What is the relation between
national sovereignty and sovereign masculinity? Through examining
practices of torture, extra-judicial assassination, and first
person accounts of soldiers on the ground, Bonnie Mann develops a
new theory of gender. It is neither a natural essence nor merely a
social construct. Gender is first and foremost an operation of
justification which binds the lived existence of the individual
subject to the aspirations of the regime. Inspired by a
reexamination of the work of Simone de Beauvoir, the author exposes
how sovereign masculinity hinges on the nation's ability to tap
into and mobilize the structure of self-justification at the heart
of masculine identity. At the national level, shame is repeatedly
converted to power in the War on Terror through hyperbolic displays
of agency including massive aerial bombardment and practices of
torture. This is why, as Mann demonstrates, the phenomenon of
gender itself demands a four-dimensional analysis that moves from
the phenomenological level of lived experience, through the
collective life of a people expressed in the social imaginary and
the operations of language, to the material relations that prevail
in our times.
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