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Sexing War/Policing Gender - Motherhood, myth and women's political violence (Paperback)
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Sexing War/Policing Gender - Motherhood, myth and women's political violence (Paperback)
Series: Popular Culture and World Politics
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Historically, there has been reluctance, from mainstream IR
scholars as well as feminists, to seriously engage with women's
agency in warfare. Instead, scholarship has tended to focus on
women's activism for peace or to ignore women's agency altogether.
This book rectifies this omission by exploring the cultural
understanding of actors, agents and structures of war and how can
we make sense of attitudes towards women, agency and war today. By
using a poststructuralist feminist perspective and by analysing
empirical cases from a Western 'war on terror' cultural context,
Ahall argues that all types of stories are informed by ideas about
motherhood and maternal reproduction as the foundation of sexual
difference. This does not only mean that women are
judged/read/valued based on the shape of their, maternalised,
bodies, rather than what they actually do, but, it means that ideas
about motherhood, not motherhood itself, function to police
contemporary gender norms and contemporary understandings of agency
in war. Overall, this book argues that maternalist war stories
function to reiterate traditional heteronormative gender roles.
This is how a 'body politics' of war is not only policing gender
norms but actually writing 'sex' itself. The body politics of war
told through maternalist war stories is a process in which the
sexing of war means the policing of gender borders, with motherhood
acting as the border agent. This work will be of interest to
students and scholars in areas such as gender, political violence
and international relations.
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