Women and WarJean Elshtain examines how the myths of Man as "Just Warrior" and Woman as "Beautiful Soul" serve to recreate and secure women's social position as noncombatants and men's identity as warriors. Elshtain demonstrates how these myths are undermined by the reality of female bellicosity and sacrificial male love, as well as the moral imperatives of just wars. |
ما يقوله الناس - كتابة مراجعة
Women and war
معاينة المستخدمين - Not Available - Book VerdictRefusing to accept the inevitability of war, Elshtain, a political scientist who teaches a course on war and peace, disputes theorists from the Greeks to Michael Walzer (Just and Unjust Wars, 1977 ... قراءة التقييم بأكمله
المحتوى
Beautiful SoulsJust Warriors | 3 |
An Exemplary Tale | 14 |
From the Greeks | 47 |
Exemplary Tales of Civic Virtue | 92 |
The Attempt to Disarm Civic Virtue 121 | |
PART II | |
The Militant ManyThe Pacific Few 194 | |
Men Women and 226 | |
EPILOGUE 259 | |
NOTES 271 | |
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