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Women as Weapons of War
Kelly Oliver
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Description for Women as Weapons of War
Ever since Eve tempted Adam with her apple, women have been regarded as a corrupting and destructive force. This book reveals how the media and the administration frequently use metaphors of weaponry to describe women and female sexuality and forge a deliberate link between notions of vulnerability and images of violence. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBQ; 1FCA; 1KBB; 3JMC; HBJF; HBLW3; HBW; JFSJ1; JPS; JW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 227.
Ever since Eve tempted Adam with her apple, women have been regarded as a corrupting and destructive force. The very idea that women can be used as interrogation tools, as evidenced in the infamous Abu Ghraib torture photos, plays on age-old fears of women as sexually threatening weapons, and therefore the literal explosion of women onto the war scene should come as no surprise. From the female soldiers involved in Abu Ghraib to Palestinian women suicide bombers, women and their bodies have become powerful weapons in the Afghanistan and Iraq wars. In Women as Weapons of War, Kelly Oliver reveals ... Read more
Ever since Eve tempted Adam with her apple, women have been regarded as a corrupting and destructive force. The very idea that women can be used as interrogation tools, as evidenced in the infamous Abu Ghraib torture photos, plays on age-old fears of women as sexually threatening weapons, and therefore the literal explosion of women onto the war scene should come as no surprise. From the female soldiers involved in Abu Ghraib to Palestinian women suicide bombers, women and their bodies have become powerful weapons in the Afghanistan and Iraq wars. In Women as Weapons of War, Kelly Oliver reveals ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231141901
SKU
V9780231141901
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About Kelly Oliver
Kelly Oliver is Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of more than fifty articles and fifteen books, including Animal Lessons: How They Teach Us to Be Human; The Colonization of Psychic Space: A Psychoanalytic Theory of Oppression; Family Values: Subjects Between Nature and Culture; and Reading Kristeva: Unraveling the Double-Bind.
Reviews for Women as Weapons of War
Straightforward and provocative... Recommended. CHOICE Women as Weapons of War is rich and fascinating and stands as an example of how philosophical analysis can enrich our political self-understanding.
Serene J. Khader philoSOPHIA
Serene J. Khader philoSOPHIA