Foreign Security Policy, Gender, and US Military Identity [Paperback]

Differentiation from the Self has been a unifying feature of war stories since they were first told highlighting that war stories are about the production of identity. Based on analysis of military documents, this book aims to unravel some of the gendered ideologies that underpin the link between state identity and foreign security policyFigures, Tables and Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Contextualizing the Study of Gender and War 2. Making Gender Tangible in Military Discourse  3. Poststructuralism in International Relations Theory 4. From Women to Gender  Poststructuralist Feminism in International Relations and Security Studies 5. The Performative Relation between Foreign Policy (Military Discourse) and (Gendered) Identities 6. Accounting for the Unaccountable: Ideology and Discourse  a Strained Relation? 7. Methodology and Data 8. The Doctrine of Military 'Perception Management' in Conflict  9. Information (Age) Warfare  10. Reading Identity I: (not so) Silent Documents  11. Gendered Ideological Underpinnings: Masculinist Neoliberalism  12. The Practice of Military 'Perception Management' in Conflict  13. Self and Other in Psyop Leaflets  14. Reading Identity II: Telling Articulations  15. The Masculinist Orientalism of the Omnipotent aviour 16. Performing Identity/Foreign (Security) Policy Conclusion  Another Gendered Reproduction of the State Annex: Sources I. Military Doctrine Documents II. US Armed Forces Leaflets Bibliography

What do military doctrines and propaganda leaflets have to do with national identity and gender? Everything, argues Elgin Brunner in this wide-ranging and innovative book. Theoretically sophisticated, methodologically thorough, and refreshingly not loath to inject an updated notion of ideology into her post-structuralist approach, the book adds a new spin to feminist contentions that link foreign policylƒ7