Paige Whaley Eager

Waging Gendered Wars

U.S. Military Women in Afghanistan and Iraq

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Waging Gendered Wars examines, through the analytical lens of feminist international relations theory, how US military women have impacted and been affected by the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. By examining how US military women's agency as soldiers, veterans, and casualties of war affect the planning and execution of war, Whaley Eager assesses the

Produktdetails

• Gender in a Global/Local World
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 156mm x 233mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 366g
• ISBN-13: 9780367605421
• ISBN-10: 0367605422
• Artikelnr.: 70011856

Autorenporträt

Paige Whaley Eager received a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Delaware in 2003. Since 2005, she has taught at Hood College in Frederick, Maryland and is currently the Chair of the Political Science Department and Co-Director of the Global Studies program. Her research interests include: Gender and War, Global Governance, and Gender and Political Violence. Professor Eager is the author of three monographs: Global Population Policy: From Population Control to Reproductive Rights (2004), From Freedom Fighters to Terrorists: Women and Political Violence (2008), and Waging Gendered Wars: U.S. Military Women in Afghanistan and Iraq (forthcoming).

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface
The road to research
History of US military women
The second sex at war in Iraq and Afghanistan
Female veterans: challenging dominant paradigms
The ultimate sacrifice
The long wars. Bibliography
Index.