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Gender, agency and war: the maternalized body in U.S. foreign policy

This monograph is based on extensive research across three historical moments in the U.S. ranging from the anti-nuclear movement, to the first Gulf War and the later U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. It critically engages with literature on American motherhood, but as linked to modernity, liberal citizenship, race, gender, psychology, imperialism and popular culture. Taking this original, innovative approach the book leads to novel theorisations, which engage feminist standpoint, cultural feminist, feminist poststructuralist, poststructuralist, postcolonial, literary and International Relations traditions. This major work makes a significant contribution to critically understanding relationships between the politics of identity, gender and practices of militarization.