Foreign security policy, gender and US military identity / Elgin Brunner, Senior Researcher, Center for Security Studies, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Zurich, Switzerland.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brunner, Elgin Medea, 1976-

Series:

Gender and politics (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))

Gender and politics series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women and the military.

Armed Forces and mass media.

United States--Armed Forces--Public relations.

United States.

Armed Forces.

Armed Forces and mass media--United States.

Gender identity--United States.

Gender identity.

Women and the military--United States.

Physical Description:

ix, 206 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

Summary:

"The concept of 'othering' which can be understood as the process of differentiation from the Self has been a basic tenet of the war story since war stories were first told. This practise of deliberate differentiation is indicative of the fact that war stories are essentially about the production of identity. The aim of this book, therefore, is to unravel some of the gendered ideologies that underpin the link between state identity and foreign security policy by looking at a certain case, state and foreign security policy. In particular this volume explores the identity of the United States through military documents on perception management in conflict from 1991-2007 shedding light on the 'othering' and the 'selfing' that occurs in these particular war stories. In doing so it lays bare the gendered ideologies that underpins US identity between these years as well as exploring potential spaces for alternatives. Thus, this book ventures a detailed and unique look at a particular aspect of the gendered reproduction of the state"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

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Figures, Tables and Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. Contextualizing the Study of Gender and War

2. Making Gender Tangible in Military Discourse

3. Poststructuralism in International Relations Theory

4. From Women to Gender

Poststructuralist Feminism in International Relations and Security Studies

5. The Performative Relation between Foreign Policy (Military Discourse) and (Gendered) Identities

6. Accounting for the Unaccountable: Ideology and Discourse

a Strained Relation?

7. Methodology and Data

8. The Doctrine of Military 'Perception Management' in Conflict

9. Information (Age) Warfare

10. Reading Identity I: (not so) Silent Documents

11. Gendered Ideological Underpinnings: Masculinist Neoliberalism

12. The Practice of Military 'Perception Management' in Conflict

13. Self and Other in Psyop Leaflets

14. Reading Identity II: Telling Articulations

15. The Masculinist Orientalism of the Omnipotent aviour

16. Performing Identity/Foreign (Security) Policy

Conclusion

Another Gendered Reproduction of the State

Annex: Sources

I. Military Doctrine Documents

II. US Armed Forces Leaflets

Bibliography.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 186-199) and index.

ISBN:

9781137296832

1137296836

OCLC:

829386974

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