Women and War

ISBN-13: 9780226206264 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 318 str.

Jean Bethke Elshtain

Opis

This study examines how the myths of man as Just Warrior and woman as Beautiful Soul serve to recreate/secure women's social position as noncombatants and men's identity as warriors. It demonstrates how these myths are undermined by the reality of female bellicosity and sacrificial male love.