Women and the War StoryUniversity of California Press, 1 sep. 2023 - 309 sidor In a book that radically and fundamentally revises the way we think about war, Miriam Cooke charts the emerging tradition of women's contributions to what she calls the "War Story," a genre formerly reserved for men. Concentrating on the contemporary literature of the Arab world, Cooke looks at how alternatives to the master narrative challenge the authority of experience and the permission to write. She shows how women who write themselves and their experiences into the War Story undo the masculine contract with violence, sexuality, and glory. There is no single War Story, Cooke concludes; the standard narrative—and with it the way we think about and conduct war—can be changed. As the traditional time, space, organization, and representation of war have shifted, so have ways of describing it. As drug wars, civil wars, gang wars, and ideological wars have moved into neighborhoods and homes, the line between combat zones and safe zones has blurred. Cooke shows how women's stories contest the acceptance of a dyadically structured world and break down the easy oppositions—home vs. front, civilian vs. combatant, war vs. peace, victory vs. defeat—that have framed, and ultimately promoted, war. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1997. In a book that radically and fundamentally revises the way we think about war, Miriam Cooke charts the emerging tradition of women's contributions to what she calls the "War Story," a genre formerly reserved for men. Concentrating on the contemporary lite |
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Miriam Cooke. mantling of the War Story . Why go to war if victory and defeat are not clear - cut , mutually exclusive concepts ? Low - intensity conflict may spill into a non - militarized zone , but people still need to believe in the ...
Miriam Cooke. mantling of the War Story . Why go to war if victory and defeat are not clear - cut , mutually exclusive concepts ? Low - intensity conflict may spill into a non - militarized zone , but people still need to believe in the ...
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... victory monuments were con- structed before any victory was in sight , martyr monuments were conceived before the war . Were they producing art or propaganda ? Can they claim innocence of collaboration with an evil regime ? What are we ...
... victory monuments were con- structed before any victory was in sight , martyr monuments were conceived before the war . Were they producing art or propaganda ? Can they claim innocence of collaboration with an evil regime ? What are we ...
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... victory in the political sphere has no necessary connection with societal change ; political victory brings few if any advantages to the lives of the people . Yet political mobilization provides opportuni- ties for change because it is ...
... victory in the political sphere has no necessary connection with societal change ; political victory brings few if any advantages to the lives of the people . Yet political mobilization provides opportuni- ties for change because it is ...
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... victory . Even when such a resolution is not reached , and it rarely is , it is often said to be reached . Victory is declared ; fighting ceases . The war is over . Therefore , the new state must be one of peace . During peace , society ...
... victory . Even when such a resolution is not reached , and it rarely is , it is often said to be reached . Victory is declared ; fighting ceases . The war is over . Therefore , the new state must be one of peace . During peace , society ...
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... victory with defeat , civilian with combatant , home with front , women's work with men's work . Lebanon's ordeal between 1975 and 1992 offers a telling ex- ample of this ordering and dichotomization . I went to Lebanon in 1980 to ...
... victory with defeat , civilian with combatant , home with front , women's work with men's work . Lebanon's ordeal between 1975 and 1992 offers a telling ex- ample of this ordering and dichotomization . I went to Lebanon in 1980 to ...
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Culture Degree Zero | 66 |
Silence Is the Real Crime | 116 |
Talking Democracy | 165 |
Flames of Fire in Qadisiya | 218 |
Reimagining Lebanon | 265 |
Conclusion | 289 |
Notes | 299 |
Cited Works | 321 |
Index | 347 |
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