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Title: Women and War: With a New Epilogue by Jean Bethke Elshtain ISBN: 0-226-20626-2 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Summary: A fresh view
Comment: From the Homeric warrior to Rambo, from the Spartan mother to the Greenham Common Women, Western paradigms of war have shaped public action and forged male and female identity. In the
beginning, politics was war, and war has always been a quintessentially male activity. War, in fact, has always created the greatest gender gap, with deeply rooted myths of Man as just Warrior and
Woman as Beautiful Soul serving to re-create and secure women's social position as noncombatants and men's identity as warriors.
In this brilliant, startlingly original inquiry, a distinguished political philosopher and feminist demonstrates that the old myths-flattering to both men and women-will not do. They are defied by the reality of female bellicosity and sacrificial male love, and undermined by ambiguous issues-from the role of women in combat, to the moral imperatives of just wars. Finding inadequate the very forms of war discourse, Elshtain shakes us loose from both the institutional language of international-relations and conventional military narrative to open her book to the culture of war as she and
her family experienced it in Colorado during and after the Second World War, thus creating a new genre of the woman's war story. Incorporating a vast range of materials, from history to cultural
anthropology, popular culture, and feminist theory, she then critiques standard political theory from Aristotle to the present and shows how that theory itself constructs a life of collective conflict. By attacking the roots of war in the myths of war, Elshtain lays open the promise of a radical reconstruction of our political order.
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Title: Women's Words: The Feminist Practice of Oral History by Sherna Berger Gluck, Daphne Patai ISBN: 0415903726 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: 01 June, 1991 List Price(USD): $28.95 |
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Title: Public Man, Private Woman by Jean Bethke Elshtain ISBN: 0691024766 Publisher: Princeton University Press Pub. Date: 08 March, 1993 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: War and Gender: How Gender Shapes the War System and Vice Versa by Joshua S. Goldstein ISBN: 0521001803 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.00 |
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Title: Three Guineas by Virginia Woolf ISBN: 0156901773 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 1963 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Women, Militarism, and War by Jean Bethke Elshtain, Sheila Tobias ISBN: 084767469X Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield (Non NBN) List Price(USD): $82.00 |
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