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Pamela Moss - Weary Warriors: Power, Knowledge, and the Invisible Wounds of Soldiers - 9781782383468 - V9781782383468
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Weary Warriors: Power, Knowledge, and the Invisible Wounds of Soldiers

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Description for Weary Warriors: Power, Knowledge, and the Invisible Wounds of Soldiers Hardback. The authors trace the effects of power and knowledge in relation to the emotional and psychological trauma that shapes soldiers' bodies, minds, and souls, developing an extensive account of the emergence, diagnosis, and treatment of soldiers' invisible wounds. Num Pages: 280 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 1KB; 3JH; 3JJ; JHB; JW; MMH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 236 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 594.
As seen in military documents, medical journals, novels, films, television shows, and memoirs, soldiers' invisible wounds are not innate cracks in individual psyches that break under the stress of war. Instead, the generation of weary warriors is caught up in wider social and political networks and institutions - families, activist groups, government bureaucracies, welfare state programs - mediated through a military hierarchy, psychiatry rooted in mind-body sciences, and various cultural constructs of masculinity. This book offers a history of military psychiatry from the American Civil War to the latest Afghanistan conflict. The authors trace the effects of power and knowledge in relation to the emotional and psychological trauma that shapes soldiers' bodies, minds, and souls, developing an extensive account of the emergence, diagnosis, and treatment of soldiers' invisible wounds.

Product Details

Publisher
Berghahn Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
593g
Number of Pages
286
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781782383468
SKU
V9781782383468
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15

About Pamela Moss
Pamela Moss is a Professor in Human and Social Development at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. She co-authored with Isabel Dyck of Women, Body, Illness (Rowman and Littlefield, 2003), edited with Katherine Teghtsoonian Contesting Illness (University of Toronto Press, 2008), and wrote and edited with Karen Falconer Al-Hindi Feminisms in Geography (Rowman and Littlefield, 2008). She is working on a book manuscript about women's tired bodies entitled Fatigue. Michael J. Prince is Lansdowne Professor of Social Policy at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. He is author of Absent Citizens: Disability Politics and Policy in Canada (University of Toronto Press, 2009), author and co-editor with Glen Toner and Leslie Pal of Policy: From Ideas to Implementation (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2010), co-author with Bruce Doern of Three Bio-Realms (University of Toronto Press, 2012), and co-author with James Rice of Changing Politics of Canadian Social Policy, 2nd edition (University of Toronto Press, 2013).

Reviews for Weary Warriors: Power, Knowledge, and the Invisible Wounds of Soldiers
This is a solid piece of scholarship. The authors successfully apply key concepts from Foucault, along with those of his feminist critics, to the analysis of soldiers returning from war. In so doing, they deepen our understanding of how weary warriors are constructed through time and space, and what his/her diagnosis, treatment, and release says about wider relations of power in, between, and across the state, the military, psychiatry, and the body itself.
Carolyn Gallaher, American University The authors provide a fascinating and well documented argument, drawing on a sophisticated analysis of theory and research on embodiment, the regulation of subjectivity, and the construction of psychiatric illness. They bring the experience of military distress to life through quotations, and through analysis of memoir and personal resistance. They also provide an important historical perspective to the construction and experience of distress following military engagement.
Jane M Ussher, University of Western Sydney

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