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Ana Carden-Coyne - Gender and Conflict since 1914: Historical and Interdisciplinary Perspectives - 9780230280953 - V9780230280953
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Gender and Conflict since 1914: Historical and Interdisciplinary Perspectives

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Description for Gender and Conflict since 1914: Historical and Interdisciplinary Perspectives Paperback. This timely edited collection brings together a team of scholars to consider the theme of gender and conflict since World War I. Covering a range of wars and armed struggles, the volume asks what has changed, what has continued, and how does understanding gender in times of conflict have ongoing relevance across the 20th and 21st centuries? Editor(s): Carden-Coyne, Ana. Series: Gender and History. Num Pages: 200 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JJ; 3JM; HBTB; HBW; JFSJ1; JW. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 168 x 234 x 12. Weight in Grams: 316.
The First World War was a turning point for modern globalised warfare. It involved the inclusion of women in 'war efforts', the homefront becoming the warzone, and produced millions of wounded and disabled men. At the same time, it incited an extraordinary arsenal of gendered discourses, practices and beliefs in the service of militarism, power structures and personal agency. This insightful collection of interdisciplinary essays, by a wide-ranging team of experts, draws out critical themes emanating from 1914. Spanning the First and Second World Wars, through to the Vietnam War, the 'War on Terror' and the wars in Iraq ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Series
Gender and History
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230280953
SKU
V9780230280953
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About Ana Carden-Coyne
ANA CARDEN-COYNE is co-director of the Centre for the Cultural History of War at the University of Manchester, UK, and co-founder of the Disability History Group, UK/Europe. Her previous publications include Reconstructing the Body: Classicism, Modernism and the First World War (2009).

Reviews for Gender and Conflict since 1914: Historical and Interdisciplinary Perspectives
'Ana Carden-Coyne and her energetic contributors...are our intellectual land mine defusers. If we, their fortunate readers, read their findings slowly, if we pause to mull over their comparisons and causal revelations, we just might make it safely across the minefield of militarized gender politics to draw useful lessons on the other side.' - Cynthia Enloe, Clark University, USA, from the ... Read more

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