| Description |
x, 265 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Prologue: Mother / Amitabh Vikram Dwivedi -- Introduction: the Shenandoah doctrine: sons, soldiers, and service to the nation / Dana Cooper -- Mothers, warfare, and captivity in the eastern woodlands of North America, 1607-1763 / John J. Navin -- Sailing sons: the personal consequences of impressment / Claire Phelan -- Las madres guerraras: testimonial writing on militant motherhood in Latin America / Tracy Crowe Morey and Cristina Santos -- The women's resistance movement in Argentina: las madres de plaza de mayo / Elena Shabliy -- Japanese mothers and rural settlement in wartime Manchukuo: gendered reflections of labor and productivity in Manshû gurafu (Manchuria graph), 1936-43 / Annika A. Culver -- Dear Okāsan ... : an analysis of farewell letters from Kamikaze pilots to their mothers / Salvador Jimenez Murguia and Benjamin A. Peters -- Social trauma and motherhood in postwar Spain / Lorraine Ryan -- Barbara Hepworth and war: themes of motherhood and sacrifice in Hepworth's Madonna and child, St. Ives Parish Church / Lyrica Taylor -- War opponnets and proponents: Israeli military mothers from Rivka Guber to "four mothers" / Udi Lebel -- Reproducing a culture of martyrdom: the role of the Palestinian mother in discourse construction, transmission, and legitimization / Michael Loadenthal -- Motherhood as a space of political activism: Iraqi mothers and the religious narrative of Karbala / Fatin Shabbar -- Mothers and memory: suffering, survival, and sustainability in Somali clan wars / Mohamed Haji Ingiriis -- Grieving US mothers and the political representations of protest during the Iraq War and beyond / Francis Shor. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Subject |
Women and war.
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Mothers of soldiers.
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Mothers of war casualties.
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Women soldiers -- Family relationships.
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Mother and child.
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Women in war.
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| Added Author |
Cooper, Dana, 1977- editor.
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Phelan, Claire, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781137437952 (hardback: alkaline paper) |
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1137437952 (hardback: alkaline paper) |
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