Women as Weapons of War: Iraq, Sex, and the Media

Kelly Oliver

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Paper, 224 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-14191-8
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October, 2007
Cloth, 224 pages,
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Table of Contents

Preface ix

Acknowledgments xiii

Introduction: Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n' Roll 1

Women-The Secret Weapon of Modern Warfare? 19

Sexual Freedom as Global Freedom? 47

Perpetual War, Real Live Coverage! 67

Innocence, Vulnerability, and Violence 109

Conclusion: Witnessing Ethics Again 151

Notes 167

Texts Cited 185

Index 195

Related Subjects

• American Politics
• Continental/Feminist Philosophy
• Political Philosophy
• Political Theory
• Women's Studies

About the Author

Kelly Oliver is Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of more than fifty articles and fifteen books, including Animal Lessons: How They Teach Us to Be Human; The Colonization of Psychic Space: A Psychoanalytic Theory of Oppression; Family Values: Subjects Between Nature and Culture; and Reading Kristeva: Unraveling the Double-Bind.

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