Name: Women and War By Jean Bethke Elshtain
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Women and War by Jean Bethke Elshtain

Jean Elshtain examines how the myths of Man as Just Warrior and Woman as Beautiful Soul serve to recreate and secure women's social position as noncombatants and men's identity as warriors. Elshtain demonstrates how these myths are undermined by the reality of female bellicosity and sacrificial male love, as well as the moral imperatives of just wars.

Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: Beautiful Souls/Just Warriors: The Seduction of War 1: Not-a-Soldier's Story: An Exemplary Tale A Child of the 1950s: Images of War and Martyrdom The Growing Up of a Political Theorist 2: The Discourse of War and Politics: From the Greeks to Today Taming Homer's Warrior: Plato and Aristotle The Ideal Republic: Machiavelli and Rousseau The Nation-State The Revolutionary Alternative: Marx and Engels The Science of War and Politics: International Relations Becomes an Academic Discipline 3: Exemplary Tales of Civic Virtue Women and the Civil War The First World War: My Nation-State, of Thee I Shout 4: The Attempt to Disarm Civic Virtue The Christian Conundrum: From Pacifists to Reluctant Warriors Just War, Holy War, and the Witness of Peace Female Privatization: The Beautiful Soul Implications of the Just-War Tradition 5: Women: The Ferocious Few/The Noncombatant Many The Historic Cleavage Female Group Violence The Ferocious Few The Noncombatant Many 6: Men: The Militant Many/The Pacific Few The Militant Many The Pacific Few The Literature of War Structures of Experience: The Good Soldier/The Good Mother 7: Neither Warriors nor Victims: Men, Women, and Civic Life The Liberal Conscience Uncertain Trumpet: Feminism's War with War Women as Warriors: You're in the Army Now Beyond War and Peace Epilogue Notes Index

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GOR007758361

ISBN 13

9780226206264

ISBN 10

0226206262

Title

Women and War by Jean Bethke Elshtain

Author

Jean Bethke Elshtain

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Used - Very Good

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Paperback

Publisher

The University of Chicago Press

Year published

19950715

Number of pages

318

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Women and War Jean Bethke Elshtain

Women and War by Jean Bethke Elshtain

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Women and War by Jean Bethke Elshtain

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