Hegemonic Masculinities and Camouflaged Politics

Name: Hegemonic Masculinities and Camouflaged Politics
Author: James W. Messerschmidt

Unmasking the Bush Dynasty and Its War Against Iraq

Gebonden Engels 2010 1e druk 9781594518171

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Analyzing the speeches of the two Bush presidencies, this book presents a new conceptualization of hegemonic masculinity by making the case for a multiplicity of hegemonic masculinites locally, regionally, and globally. This book outlines how state leaders may appeal to particular hegemonic masculinites in their attempt to "sell" wars and thereby camouflage salient political practices in the process. Messerschmidt offers a fresh historical perspective on the war against Iraq over an 18-year period, and he argues that we cannot truly understand this war outside of its gendered (masculine) and historical context.