Description
| Product ID: | 9780367605421 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Gender in a Global/Local World |
| Title: | Waging Gendered Wars |
| Subtitle: | U.S. Military Women in Afghanistan and Iraq |
| Authors: | Author: Paige Whaley Eager |
| Page Count: | 234 |
| Subjects: | Military history: post-WW2 conflicts, Afghan War, Military history: post-WW2 conflicts, Gender studies, gender groups, Gender studies: women and girls, Politics and government, International relations, Armed conflict, Theory of warfare and military science, Military engineering, Iraq War, Gender studies, gender groups, Gender studies: women, Politics & government, International relations, Armed conflict, Theory of warfare & military science, Military engineering, Iraq, Afghanistan, USA |
| Description: | 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 Waging Gendered Wars examines, through the analytical lens of feminist international relations theory, how U.S. military women have impacted and been affected by the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Although women were barred from serving formally in ground combat positions within the U.S. armed forces during both wars, U.S. female soldiers are being killed in action. By examining how U.S. military women''s agency as soldiers, veterans, and casualties of war affect the planning and execution of war, Whaley Eager assesses the ways in which the global world of international politics and warfare has become localized in the life and death narratives of female service personnel impacted by combat experience, homelessness, military sexual trauma, PTSD, and the deaths of fellow soldiers. |
| Imprint Name: | Routledge |
| Publisher Name: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2020-06-30 |
