9780807842560-0807842567-Arms and the Woman: War, Gender, and Literary Representation

Arms and the Woman: War, Gender, and Literary Representation

ISBN-13: 9780807842560
ISBN-10: 0807842567
Edition: New edition
Author: Helen M. Cooper, Susan Merrill Squier, Adrienne Auslander Munich
Publication date: 1989
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Format: Paperback 370 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780807842560
ISBN-10: 0807842567
Edition: New edition
Author: Helen M. Cooper, Susan Merrill Squier, Adrienne Auslander Munich
Publication date: 1989
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Format: Paperback 370 pages

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Arms and the Woman: War, Gender, and Literary Representation (ISBN-13: 9780807842560 and ISBN-10: 0807842567), written by authors Helen M. Cooper, Susan Merrill Squier, Adrienne Auslander Munich, was published by The University of North Carolina Press in 1989. With an overall rating of 4.1 stars, it's a notable title among other Women Writers (Women's Studies) books. You can easily purchase or rent Arms and the Woman: War, Gender, and Literary Representation (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Women Writers books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.39.

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Although the themes of women's complicity in and resistance to war have been part of literature from early times, they have not been fully integrated into conventional conceptions of the war narrative. Combining feminist literary criticism with the emerging field of feminist war theory, this collection explores the role of gender as an organizing principle in the war system and reveals how literature perpetuates the ancient myth of "arms and the man."

The volume shows how the gendered conception of war has both shaped literary texts and formed the literary canon. It identifies and interrogates the conventional war text, with its culturally determined split between warlike men and peaceful women, and it confirms that women's role in relation to war is much more complex and complicitous than such essentializing suggests. The contributors examine a wide range of familiar texts from fresh perspectives and bring new texts to light. Collectively, these essays range in time from the Trojan War to the nuclear age.

The contributors are June Jordan, Lorraine Helms, Patricia Francis Cholakian, Jane E. Schultz, Margaret R. Higonnet, James Longenbach, Laura Stempel Mumford, Sharon O'Brien, Jane Marcus, Sara Friedrichsmeyer, Susan Schweik, Carol J. Adams, Esther Fuchs, Barbara Freeman, Gillian Brown, Helen M. Cooper, Adrienne Auslander Munich, and Susan Merrill Squier.

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