women in the media-military-industrial complex
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Vavrus, Mary Douglas
- Publish Year
- 2018
- Shelfmark
- VS 1M 2018
- Thesaurus
- vrouwbeelden, media, oorlog en vrede, feminisme, militaire beroepen, Irak, Afghanistan, Verenigde Staten, 21e eeuw, bundel
- Description
- Volume about media representations and practices that have emerged out of contemporary wars. The author considers two questions: how the construction of gender, race and class in media are productive of regimes of truth regarding war and military life, and how such constructions may intensify militarism. By examining news and documentary media produced since September 11, 2001, she demonstrates that news narratives that include women use feminism selectively in gender equality narratives. They tend to reinforce historically resonant gender, race and class identity constructions.