النساء أسلحة حربية: العراق والجنس والإعلام

by Kelly Oliver, شكري مجاهد (Translator)

إن مجرد التفكير في استخدام النساء كأدوات للاستجواب والتحقيق يعني العودة إلى المخاوف الموغلة في القدم من النساء بوصفهن أسلحة خطيرة، وعلى هذا، فليس مستغرباً أن يقع ذلك الانفجار الفعلي للنساء في المشهد الحربي
تمثل "كيلي أوليفر" حالة ولعنا الثقافي بالجنس والعنف والموت وعلاقته بالتغطية الخبرية الحية، والإعلام العسكري الذي يُطَبِّع الأحداث الفظيعة ويجهض التأمل النقدي وتقول: إن هذه العملية تزيد من خطر طمس الحدود بين الوهم والواقع، مما يزكي حالة من الوطنية المريضة الواهمة التي تنتهي إلى أشكال مفزعة من العنف

Genres: Politics, Feminism, Nonfiction

280 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2007

About the author

Kelly Oliver is the award-winning, bestselling author of four mysteries series:
Jessica James Mysteries (contemporary suspense), Pet Detective Mysteries (middle grade), Fiona Figg Mysteries (historical cozies), and The Detection Club Mysteries (traditional).

When she’s not writing mysteries, Kelly is Distinguished Professor Emerita of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University.

Kelly lives in Nashville with three very demanding felines.

To learn more about Kelly and her books, please visit her website at www.kellyoliverbooks.com.

Reviews

[Nancy Wright · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book does not explore the history of women as warriors. The points it tries to make about Jessica Lynch is lost amongst the quotes she uses about “hair bows in boot camp”. Anyone who has been to boot camp as a woman knows that there is no such thing....ever. I think the scholarship is too light to make a successful point and it’s seems like no female veterans/active duty members were interviewed.

[B Mcc · Rating 4 out of 5]

Kelly Oliver has some incredible insights into a variety of topics thru a variety of lenses and perspectives in this book, the multitudes of her analysis are so thoughtful and engaging to me I’m having trouble articulating the impact its had on me tbh.

I once had to write a comparative analysis of Religious Rhetoric as a Political Weapon employed by both the Bush Administration and Al-Qaeda and I felt so “seen” by this book, if I had read this while writing that this would’ve been a big help, and maybe I wouldn’t have written it at all seeing as Oliver had already came to the main conclusions I had in my paper a decade prior.

Of course this book is so much more than that, it covers so much, in such depth, in only 160 some pages, its truly incredible, I found it to be such a page turner after 30-40 pages, maybe this sounds dumb but I felt like I was being “educated” while reading it, learning a new way to see the world, at times it felt like I was reading theory.

[Mha · Rating 3 out of 5]

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[Katia · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was a challenging read, and although it dealt primarily with 9/11 and Abu Ghraib, the analysis still rang true. It seems that human nature changes little, so does politics.

Here are some quotes to give you an idea:

"In chapter 3 I analyze the rhetoric of freedom as it has been used by the Bush administration to justify war. In examining presidential speeches, we discover an essential link between freedom and property, between freedom and ownership. We are fighting to protect our property and our right to ownership. Again, freedom is reduced to the free market. In these speeches, the rhetoric of freedom works in tandem with the rhetoric of good and evil. Once more, protecting the Good is reduced to protecting our goods."

"But, as we will see, the fear of losing our wealth, and the determination to protect it at all costs, leads to a paranoid patriotism wherein we feel our wealth threatened on all sides. The flip side of paranoia is delusion of grandeur, which is also evidenced in talk of “the entire free world” and “bringing democracy to the globe.” "

"Our sense of ourselves as a nation is strengthened by finding a common enemy, by seeing ourselves fighting the good fight against the forces of evil all around us. Our sense of ourselves as free is emboldened by comparing ourselves to people, especially women, elsewhere whom we imagine as enslaved. The inflated rhetoric of good versus evil, of us versus them, feeds a paranoid patriotism that acts without thinking."

"If we are fighting for eternity, then we are fighting a war without end, perpetual war without the possibility of peace. Another dangerous aspect of this rhetoric of eternity is that it takes the war out of its sociohistorical context. The war is therefore not about oil, or nuclear weapons, or dictators, or maintaining America’s position as a superpower, or rebuilding Iraq, or even free elections in Iraq, but about eternal goodness and our faith in God."

"The danger of removing events from their sociohistorical context is that we are not given the information needed to interpret and understand these events. We are given hyperbolic images that stir feeling, often violent feelings of hatred and revenge, but we are discouraged from thinking introspectively about those feelings. We are encouraged to feel violent, to want violence, without thinking about our own investments in that violence or about its consequences."

[Olivia · Rating 3 out of 5]

Depressing, eye-opening and insightful.