1st Edition
Gender for the Warfare State Literature of Women in Combat
Introduction
Chapter 1 Women in the War Story: What Work Does Gender Do?
Chapter 2 From Decolonization to Body Bombs: Tragedy, Feminist Political Theory, and the Female Militant
Chapter 3 A Critique of Violence in the Age of Mechanical Drone Warfare
Chapter 4 Killers and Spies: The Postcolonial Legacy in Real Estate
Chapter 5 The Woman, the Worker, the Warrior, and the Writer: The Military Nation and the Making of Female Neoliberal Subjectivity
Conclusion
Biography
Robin Truth Goodman is Professor of English and Director of the Literature Program at Florida State University. Her recent books include Literature and the Development of Feminist Theory (ed., Cambridge University Press, 2015) and Gender Work: Feminism After Neoliberalism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013).
"Gender for the Warfare State helps us to think afresh about how we can use literature, including women soldiers' own writings, to shed light on and pose new questions about the dynamic relationships between militarism, the liberal state, wars, women's soldiering, and gender ideologies." – Cynthia Enloe, author of Globalization and Militarism: Feminist Make the Link, 2e (Rowman & LIttlefield, 2016)
"Gender for the Warfare State offers provocative insights along a trustworthy road map that lead us all the way back to the earliest intersection of female warrior and literature. In doing so, Goodman provides fresh analysis on both twenty-first century warfare and female subjectivity in combat." – Tracy Crow, author of On Point: A Guide to Writing the Military Story (Potomac Books, 2015)
