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Sovereign Masculinity
By Mann
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Description
Through examining practices of torture, extra-judicial assassination, and first person accounts of soldiers on the ground, Bonnie Mann develops a new theory of gender. It is neither a natural essence nor merely a social construct. Gender is first and foremost an operation of justification which binds the lived existence of the individual subject to the aspirations of the regime.
Inspired by a reexamination of the work of Simone de Beauvoir, the author exposes how sovereign masculinity hinges on the nation's ability to tap into and mobilize the structure of self-justification at the heart of masculine identity.
At the national level, shame is repeatedly converted to power in the War on Terror through hyperbolic displays of agency including massive aerial bombardment and practices of torture. This is why, as Mann demonstrates, the phenomenon of gender itself demands a four-dimensional analysis that moves from the phenomenological level of lived experience, through the collective life of a people expressed in the social imaginary and the operations of language, to the material relations that prevail in our times.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
244
Release Date:
2014-01-08
Publication Date:
2019-10-23
Publisher:
ACADEMIC
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN10:
0199981647
ISBN13:
9780199981649
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Weight:
534 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
18 cm
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