Gendering War Talk

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In a century torn by violent civil uprisings, civilian bombings, and genocides, war has been an immediate experience for both soldiers and civilians, for both women and men. But has this reality changed our long-held images of the roles women and men play in war, or the emotions we attach to violence, or what we think war can accomplish? This provocative collection addresses such questions in exploring male and female experiences of war--from World War I, to Vietnam, to wars in Latin America and the Middle ...
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In a century torn by violent civil uprisings, civilian bombings, and genocides, war has been an immediate experience for both soldiers and civilians, for both women and men. But has this reality changed our long-held images of the roles women and men play in war, or the emotions we attach to violence, or what we think war can accomplish? This provocative collection addresses such questions in exploring male and female experiences of war--from World War I, to Vietnam, to wars in Latin America and the Middle East--and how this experience has been articulated in literature, film and drama, history, psychology, and philosophy. Together these essays reveal a myth of war that has been upheld throughout history and that depends on the exclusion of "the feminine" in order to survive.The discussions reconsider various existing gender images: Do women really tend to be either pacifists or Patriotic Mothers? Are men essentially aggressive or are they threatened by their lack of aggression?Essays explore how cultural conceptions of gender as well as discursive and iconographic representation reshape the experience and meaning of war. The volume shows war as a terrain in which gender is negotiated. As to whether war produces change for women, some contributors contend that the fluidity of war allows for linguistic and social renegotiations; others find no lasting, positive changes. In an interpretive essay Klaus Theweleit suggests that the only good war is the lost war that is embraced as a lost war.
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These 13 essays, which grew out of a 1990 institute on war and gender at Dartmouth College, range across cultures and disciplines to explore how 20th-century war stories articulate both men's and women's experiences. Some are quite accessible, such as Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer's analysis of Claude Lanzmann's film Shoah, which, in concentrating on testimony from men, refuses to recognize gender differences in the experiences of victims. Some essays address obscure topics, like Diana Taylor's criticism of an Argentine play that concerns the country's ``dirty war,'' or are bogged down in lit-crit language, like Lynda E. Boose's take on ``techno-muscular'' cinematic representations of war and masculinity. Perhaps most interesting is Carol Cohn's ironic report on how male defense intellectuals talk about war--urging caution in an international crisis, for instance, is called ``wimping out.'' Also notable is Irene Matthews's analysis of the stories told by daughters about their mothers in Mexico and Guatemala, which includes one by Guatemalan Nobel Peace Prize-winner Rigoberta Menchu. Cooke is the author of War's Other Voices ; Woollacott teaches history at Case Western Reserve University. (May)
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  • ISBN-13: 9780691015422
  • Publisher: Princeton University Press
  • Publication date: 3/22/1993
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 360

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
Contributors
Pt. I Presenting the Unpresentable
Ch. 1 Gendered Translations: Claude Lanzmann's Shoah 3
Ch. 2 Spectacular Bodies: Gender, Terror, and Argentina's "Dirty War" 20
Pt. II War Mythopoeia
Ch. 3 The Threshold of Thrill: Life Stories in the Skies over Southeast Asia 43
Ch. 4 Techno-Muscularity and the "Boy Eternal": From the Quagmire to the Gulf 67
Pt. III Home/Front?
Ch. 5 Notes toward a Feminist Peace Politics 109
Ch. 6 Sisters and Brothers in Arms: Family, Class, and Gendering in World War I Britain 128
Ch. 7 Daughtering in War: Two "Case Studies" from Mexico and Guatemala 148
Pt. IV Engendering Language
Ch. 8 [WO]-man, Retelling the War Myth 177
Ch. 9 Not So Quiet in No-Woman's-Land 205
Ch. 10 Wars, Wimps, and Women: Talking Gender and Thinking War 227
Pt. V The Politics of Representation
Ch. 11 Sexual Fantasies and War Memories: Claude Simon's Narratology 249
Ch. 12 Danger on the Home Front: Motherhood, Sexuality, and Disabled Veterans in American Postwar Films 260
Pt. VI Interpretive Essay
Ch. 13 The Bomb's Womb and the Genders of War (War Goes on Preventing Women from Becoming the Mothers of Invention) 283
Postscript 317
Select Bibliography 327
Index 329
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