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Waging Gendered Wars
U.S. Military Women in Afghanistan and Iraq
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Artikel-Nr:
9780367605421
Veröffentl:
2020
Erscheinungsdatum:
30.06.2020
Seiten:
234
Autor:
Paige Whaley Eager
Gewicht:
366 g
Format:
233x156x17 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Paige Whaley Eager received a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Delaware in 2003. Since 2005, she has taught at Hood College in Frederick, Maryland and is currently the Chair of the Political Science Department and Co-Director of the Global Studies program. Her research interests include: Gender and War, Global Governance, and Gender and Political Violence. Professor Eager is the author of three monographs: Global Population Policy: From Population Control to Reproductive Rights (2004), From Freedom Fighters to Terrorists: Women and Political Violence (2008), and Waging Gendered Wars: U.S. Military Women in Afghanistan and Iraq (forthcoming).
Waging Gendered Wars examines, through the analytical lens of feminist international relations theory, how US military women have impacted and been affected by the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. By examining how US military women's agency as soldiers, veterans, and casualties of war affect the planning and execution of war, Whaley Eager assesses the
Contents: Preface; The road to research; History of US military women; The second sex at war in Iraq and Afghanistan; Female veterans: challenging dominant paradigms; The ultimate sacrifice; The long wars. Bibliography; Index.