Gendering War Talk

by Cooke, Miriam; Woollacott, Angela

• ISBN13: 9780691069807
• ISBN10: 0691069808
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1993-04-01
• Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
Contributors
Presenting the Unpresentable
Gendered Translations: Claude Lanzmann's Shoah	p. 3
Spectacular Bodies: Gender, Terror, and Argentina's "Dirty War"	p. 20
War Mythopoeia
The Threshold of Thrill: Life Stories in the Skies over Southeast Asia	p. 43
Techno-Muscularity and the "Boy Eternal": From the Quagmire to the Gulf	p. 67
Home/Front?
Notes toward a Feminist Peace Politics	p. 109
Sisters and Brothers in Arms: Family, Class, and Gendering in World War I Britain	p. 128
Daughtering in War: Two "Case Studies" from Mexico and Guatemala	p. 148
Engendering Language
[WO]-man, Retelling the War Myth	p. 177
Not So Quiet in No-Woman's-Land	p. 205
Wars, Wimps, and Women: Talking Gender and Thinking War	p. 227
The Politics of Representation
Sexual Fantasies and War Memories: Claude Simon's Narratology	p. 249
Danger on the Home Front: Motherhood, Sexuality, and Disabled Veterans in American Postwar Films	p. 260
Interpretive Essay
The Bomb's Womb and the Genders of War (War Goes on Preventing Women from Becoming the Mothers of Invention)	p. 283
Postscript	p. 317
Select Bibliography	p. 327
Index	p. 329
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