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At war with women : military humanitarianism and imperial feminism in an era of permanent war / Jennifer Greenburg.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Greenburg, Jennifer, 1983- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women soldiers--Government policy--United States.
- Women soldiers.
- Afghan War, 2001-2021--Participation, Female.
- Afghan War, 2001-2021.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (282 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, [2023]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- "This book examines the role of gender, international development, and history in the post-9/11 wars. It includes ethnography of counterinsurgency training, interviews with female soldiers deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan, and analysis of colonial and Cold War histories used to create military doctrine during the war on terror"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Doctrinal Turning Points in the New Imperial Wars
- The "Social Work" of War : Techniques and Struggles to Remake Military Labor
- Colonial "Lessons Learned" : The Contemporary Soldier Becomes the Historical Colonizer
- Soothing Occupation : Gender and the Strategic Deployment of Emotional Labor
- A New Imperial Feminism : Color-Blind Racism and the Special Operation of Women's Rights.
- Notes:
- This eBook is made available Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781501767753
- 1501767755
- 9781501767760
- 1501767763
- OCLC:
- 1343299532
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