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1 online resource (xiii, 289 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Preface -- Virginia Woolf's purse -- Algeria : a world constructed out of ruins -- Yugoslavia : archetype or anomaly? -- Chechnya : virgins, mothers, and terrorists -- Québec : oui, no, or femme -- 'To live to see better times' : gender, nationalism, sovereignty, equality -- Sequel : gender and nationalist violence on film. |
Summary |
Virginia Woolf famously wrote 'as a woman I have no country', suggesting that women had little stake in defending countries where they are considered second-class citizens, and should instead be forces for peace. Yet women have been perpetrators as well as victims of violence in nationalist conflicts. This unique book generates insights into the role of gender in nationalist violence by examining feature films from a range of conflict zones. In The Battle of Algiers, female bombers destroy civilians while men dress in women's clothes to prevent the French army from capturing and torturing them. Prisoner of the Mountains shows a Chechen girl falling in love with her Russian captive as his mother tries to rescue him. Providing historical and political context to these and other films, Matthew Evangelista identifies the key role that economic decline plays in threatening masculine identity and provoking the misogynistic violence that often accompanies nationalist wars. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Women in motion pictures.
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Women in motion pictures. |
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War films -- History and criticism.
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War films. |
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Sex role in motion pictures.
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Sex role in motion pictures. |
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Nationalism in motion pictures.
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Nationalism in motion pictures. |
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Political violence in motion pictures.
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Political violence in motion pictures. |
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Men in motion pictures.
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Men in motion pictures. |
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Women -- Political activity.
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Women -- Political activity. |
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Violence in women.
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Violence in women. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book.
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Subject |
Women. |
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Womyn. |
Other Form: |
Print version: Evangelista, Matthew, 1958- Gender, nationalism, and war. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011 9781107001947 (DLC) 2010051876 (OCoLC)693750963 |
ISBN |
9781139078269 (electronic book) |
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1139078267 (electronic book) |
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9781139080552 (electronic book) |
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1139080555 (electronic book) |
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9781139070256 |
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1139070258 |
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9780511740046 (electronic book) |
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0511740042 (electronic book) |
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9781107001947 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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1107001943 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780521173544 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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052117354X (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
Standard No. |
9786613111357 |
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