Beschreibung:
This book examines motherhood as a discursive practice in IR against the backdrop of US foreign policy formation.
Introduction: Reading International Relations through Bodies, Reading the Maternal Body as Political Event 1. The Vicissitudes of Life: Women's Complex Entanglement with Peace and War 2. Shifting the Gaze from Hysterical Mothers to 'Deadly Dads': Spectacle and the Antinuclear Movement 3. (M)others, Biopolitics and the Gulf War 4. Grieving Dead Soldiers, Disavowing Loss: Cindy Sheehan and the Im/possibility of the American Antiwar Movement Conclusion: The Maternal Body as Alibi: Understanding the Centrality of the Maternal Body to Sovereign Representation