Fighting for peace : veterans and military families in the anti-Iraq War movement / Lisa Leitz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Leitz, Lisa, author.

Series:

Social movements, protest, and contention ; v. 40.

Social movements, protest, and contention ; volume 40

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Iraq War, 2003-2011--Moral and ethical aspects.

Iraq War, 2003-2011.

Veterans--Political activity--United States.

Veterans.

Iraq War, 2003-2011--Protest movements--United States.

Families of military personnel--Political activity--United States--History--21st century.

Families of military personnel.

Peace movements--United States--History--21st century.

Peace movements.

History.

Political participation.

Veterans--Political activity.

United States.

Physical Description:

xvii, 306 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2014]

Summary:

Fighting for Peace brings to light an important yet neglected aspect of opposition to the Iraq War-the role of veterans and their families. Drawing on extensive participant observation and interviews, Lisa Leitz demonstrates how the harrowing war experiences of veterans and their families motivated a significant number of them to engage in peace activism. Leitz documents how military peace activists created a movement that allowed them to merge two seemingly contradictory sides of their lives: an intimate relation to the military and antiwar activism. Increasingly, Leitz shows, veterans and their families are being left not only to fight America's wars but also to fight against them. Book jacket.

Contents:

Joining the military peace movement: risky business

Insider-outsiders: from warriors to war protestors

Building a family and transforming activists' emotions

Managing and deploying the insider-outsider identity

Using grief to connect with bystanders.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780816680450

0816680450

9780816680467

0816680469

OCLC:

854541677