Hegemonic Masculinities and Camouflaged Politics: Unmasking the Bush Dynasty and Its War Against Iraq

ISBN-13: 9781594518188 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 216 str.

James W. Messerschmidt

Opis

Analyzing the speeches of the two Bush presidencies, this book presents a new conceptualization of hegemonic masculinity by making the case for a multiplicity of hegemonic masculinites locally, regionally, and globally. This book outlines how state leaders may appeal to particular hegemonic masculinites in their attempt to "sell" wars and thereby camouflage salient political practices in the process. Messerschmidt offers a fresh historical perspective on the war against Iraq over an 18-year period, and he argues that we cannot truly understand this war outside of its gendered (masculine) and historical context.

Spis treści

Introduction; Part I Hegemonic Masculinities; Chapter 1 Criticisms; Chapter 2 Reformulation; Part II Bush Senior; Chapter 3 Desert Storm; Chapter 4 Camouflage I; Part III Bush Junior; Chapter 5 Global War on Terror; Chapter 6 Camouflage II; conclu Conclusion;

O autorze

James W. Messerschmidt