Download e-book for kindle: Sexing War/Policing Gender: Motherhood, myth and women’s by Linda Åhäll

Historically, there was reluctance, from mainstream IR students in addition to feminists, to significantly interact with women’s employer in battle. as a substitute, scholarship has tended to target women’s activism for peace or to disregard women’s supplier altogether.

This publication rectifies this omission via exploring the cultural realizing of actors, brokers and buildings of warfare and the way will we make feel of attitudes in the direction of ladies, service provider and warfare this day. through the use of a poststructuralist feminist viewpoint and by means of analysing empirical instances from a Western ‘war on terror’ cultural context, Ahall argues that each one varieties of tales are trained by way of rules approximately motherhood and maternal replica because the beginning of sexual distinction. this doesn't merely suggest that ladies are judged/read/valued in response to the form in their, maternalised, our bodies, instead of what they really do, yet, it signifies that principles approximately motherhood, no longer motherhood itself, functionality to police modern gender norms and modern understandings of business enterprise in struggle. total, this publication argues that maternalist warfare tales functionality to reiterate conventional heteronormative gender roles. this is often how a ‘body politics’ of warfare is not just policing gender norms yet truly writing ‘sex’ itself. The physique politics of conflict instructed via maternalist warfare tales is a approach within which the sexing of conflict potential the policing of gender borders, with motherhood appearing because the border agent.

This paintings could be of curiosity to scholars and students in parts resembling gender, political violence and diplomacy.