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Author Goff, Stanley, author.

Title Borderline : reflections on war, sex, and church / Stan Goff ; foreword by Amy Laura Hall.

Publication Info. Eugene, Oregon : Cascade Books, [2015]

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Description 1 online resource
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents My acquaintance with a Christian soldier and serial rapist -- Forest troop -- Body counts -- Ontology of the witch hunt -- Ecologies of power -- The rise of the lawyers -- Misbegotten man -- Eros and war -- Practice makes perfect -- The masculine fortress -- Torture and redemption -- The Pope's army -- Sleepwalking -- Genealogy -- Bodies and objects -- Contagious prefix -- Just, civil, and total war-sanctification of state -- A bodyguard of lies: girl story and boy story -- Origin myths -- Paradox of domination -- Disgust, transgression, and sex -- Respectability -- Progress and fear of the feminine -- Shell shock -- Nation, race, and hygiene -- The art of depression -- Homos and harlots -- Second World War -- Bombs, babies, and 'burbs -- The herd -- Taboo -- Consent -- Clarifications.
Summary What if the sanctification of war and contempt for women are both grounded in a fear that breeds hostility, and a hostility that rationalizes conquest? The anti-Gospel Christian history of war-loving and women-hating are not merely similar but two aspects of the same dynamic, argues Stan Goff, in an "autobiography" that spans millennia. Borderline is the historical and conceptual autobiography of a former career army veteran transformed by Jesus into a passionate advocate for nonviolence, written by a man who narrates his conversion to Christianity through feminism. --Provided by publisher.
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Subject Masculinity.
Masculinity.
Masculinity -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Masculinity -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Feminism.
Feminism.
Sex -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Sex -- Political aspects.
United States.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Sex.
Masculinity -- Political aspects.
Masculinity -- Political aspects.
United States -- Military policy.
Military policy.
United States -- Armed Forces.
Armed Forces.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Subject Feminism.
Women's movement.
Added Author Hall, Amy Laura, writer of foreword.
Other Form: Print version: Goff, Stan. Borderline 162564485X (DLC) 2015300990 (OCoLC)904183127
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