Imagining Russia : making feminist sense of American nationalism in U.S.-Russian relations / Kimberly A. Williams.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Williams, Kimberly A. (Kimberly Ann), 1975-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminist theory.

Nationalism--United States.

Nationalism.

Mass media and nationalism--United States.

Mass media and nationalism.

Mass media and international relations.

National characteristics, Russian.

National characteristics in mass media.

Sex role.

Nationalism and feminism.

United States--Foreign relations--Russia (Federation).

United States.

United States--Foreign relations--Soviet Union.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (301 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : SUNY Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Co-winner of the 2009 SUNY Press Dissertation/First Book Prize in Women's and Gender Studies, Imagining Russia uses U.S.–Russian relations between the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 and the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 as a case study to examine the deployment of gendered, racialized, and heteronormative visual and narrative depictions of Russia and Russians in contemporary narratives of American nationalism and U.S. foreign policy. Through analyses of several key post-Soviet American popular and political texts, including the hit television series The West Wing, Washington D.C.'s International Spy Museum, and the legislative hearings of the Freedom Support Act and the Trafficking Victims Protection Act, Williams calls attention to the production and operation of five types of "gendered Russian imaginaries" that were explicitly used to bolster support for and legitimize U.S. geopolitical unilateralism after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, demonstrating the ways that the masculinization of U.S. military, political, and financial power after 1991 paved the way for the invasion of Iraq in 2003.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Figures

Acknowledgments

Imagining Russia

The Geopolitical Traffic in Gendered Russian Imaginaries

Freedom for Whom? Support for What?

Death and the Maiden

Crime, Corruption and Chaos

“It’s a Cold War Mentality”

The Cultural Politics of Cold War

Casualties of Cold War

Appendix

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781438439778

1438439776

9781461905332

1461905338

OCLC:

784947993