motherhood, myth and women's political violence
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Åhäll, Linda
- Publish Year
- 2015
- Shelfmark
- WER 8 2015 - B
- Thesaurus
- oorlog en vrede, moederschap, populaire cultuur, seksualiteit, seksueel geweld, vrouwelijkheid, militaire beroepen
- Description
- This book explores the cultural understanding of actors, agents and structures of war and how can we make sense of attitudes towards women, agency and war today. 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 based on the shape of their, maternalised, bodies, rather than what they actually do, but, it means that ideas about motherhood function to police contemporary gender norms and contemporary understandings of agency in war.This book argues that maternalist war stories function to reiterate traditional heteronormative gender roles.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.