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Imagining Russia : Making Feminist Sense of American Nationalism in U.S.-Russian Relations by Kimberly A. Williams (2012, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherSTATE University of New York Press
ISBN-10143843975X
ISBN-139781438439754
eBay Product ID (ePID)20038830757
Product Key Features
Number of Pages299 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameImagining Russia : Making Feminist Sense of American Nationalism in U.S.-Russian Relations
SubjectFeminism & Feminist Theory, Media Studies, Gender Studies, International Relations / General, Women's Studies
Publication Year2012
TypeTextbook
AuthorKimberly A. Williams
Subject AreaPolitical Science, Social Science
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight19.2 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2011-009762
Dewey Edition22
Reviews"Williams has written a masterful look at the gendered rhetoric produced in the West (and sometimes by Russians themselves) to describe post-Soviet Russia in the aftermath of the Cold War ... Highly recommended." -- CHOICE "This is an outstanding book and an excellent example of feminist IR analysis. The thesis and objectives are to show the ideological causes of (asymmetrical and deteriorating) U.S.-Russian relations, which Williams convincingly argues are rooted in gendered understandings." -- Valentine M. Moghadam, coeditor of Making Globalization Work for Women: The Role of Social Rights and Trade Union Leadership
Grade FromCollege Graduate Student
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal303.48/24707309045
Table Of ContentList of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction: Imagining Russia Foundational Precepts Implications and Interventions 1. The Geopolitical Traffic in Gendered Russian Imaginaries Gendered Russian Nationalism Gendered American Nationalism Russia and Russians in a U.S. Context U.S. Foreign Policy and the Triumphalist Mythscape 2. Freedom for Whom? Support for What? Provisions and Objectives Implementation Capitalism as "Freedom" Imaginaries at Work Russia as Child/United States as Great, White Father Russia as Student/United States as Tutor Russia as Frontier/United States as Entrepreneurial Pioneer Russia as Pathologically Ill Patient/United States as Doctor Russia as Retrogressive Baba /United States as Responsible Superpower Imperial Masculinity 3. Death and the Maiden Conjuring the Ghost Anastasia on Stage and Screen A Reflection of U.S.-Russia Policy Reckoning with the Ghost 4. Crime, Corruption, and Chaos American Heroes Russian Victims and Villains With Impunity: The United States as Innocent Bystander From Mother Russia to Miss Russia 5. "It's a Cold War Mentality" The West Wing and U.S. Political Culture Gendered Discursive Configurations Vassily Konanov as Boris Yeltsin: "Our Kind of Crazy" Cold War Holdouts Peter Chigorin as Vladimir Putin: Barlet's Last Best Hope Whose Cold-war Mentality? 6. Cultural Politics of Cold War A Cold-war Museum Atomic Secrets The Rosenbergs as Discursive Phenomena The Rosenbergs at the International Spy Museum Origins of State-based Terror Heterosexpionage The Cold War as Cautionary Tale Conclusion: Casualties of Cold War Russia's Geopolitical Resurgence Competing Masculinities Obama's "Reset" Appendix Notes Bibliography Index
SynopsisCo-winner of the 2009 SUNY Press Dissertation/First Book Prize in Women's and Gender Studies, Imagining Russia uses U.S.-Russian relations between the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 and the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 as a case study to examine the deployment of gendered, racialized, and heteronormative visual and narrative depictions of Russia and Russians in contemporary narratives of American nationalism and U.S. foreign policy. Through analyses of several key post-Soviet American popular and political texts, including the hit television series The West Wing, Washington D.C.'s International Spy Museum, and the legislative hearings of the Freedom Support Act and the Trafficking Victims Protection Act, Williams calls attention to the production and operation of five types of "gendered Russian imaginaries" that were explicitly used to bolster support for and legitimize U.S. geopolitical unilateralism after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, demonstrating the ways that the masculinization of U.S. military, political, and financial power after 1991 paved the way for the invasion of Iraq in 2003., A bold work of feminist international relations that contributes to our understanding of the gendered, racialized, and heteronormative dynamics of U.S. foreign policy, both in relations with Russia and in the invasion of Iraq., A bold work of feminist international relations that contributes to our understanding of the gendered, racialized, and heteronormative dynamics of U.S. foreign policy, both in relations with Russia and in the invasion of Iraq. Co-winner of the 2009 SUNY Press Dissertation/First Book Prize in Women's and Gender Studies, Imagining Russia uses U.S.?Russian relations between the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 and the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 as a case study to examine the deployment of gendered, racialized, and heteronormative visual and narrative depictions of Russia and Russians in contemporary narratives of American nationalism and U.S. foreign policy. Through analyses of several key post-Soviet American popular and political texts, including the hit television series The West Wing, Washington D.C.'s International Spy Museum, and the legislative hearings of the Freedom Support Act and the Trafficking Victims Protection Act, Williams calls attention to the production and operation of five types of "gendered Russian imaginaries" that were explicitly used to bolster support for and legitimize U.S. geopolitical unilateralism after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, demonstrating the ways that the masculinization of U.S. military, political, and financial power after 1991 paved the way for the invasion of Iraq in 2003., A bold work of feminist international relations that contributes to our understanding of the gendered, racialized, and heteronormative dynamics of U.S. foreign policy, both in relations with Russia and in the invasion of Iraq. Co-winner of the 2009 SUNY Press Dissertation/First Book Prize in Women's and Gender Studies, Imagining Russia uses U.S.-Russian relations between the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 and the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 as a case study to examine the deployment of gendered, racialized, and heteronormative visual and narrative depictions of Russia and Russians in contemporary narratives of American nationalism and U.S. foreign policy. Through analyses of several key post-Soviet American popular and political texts, including the hit television series The West Wing, Washington D.C.'s International Spy Museum, and the legislative hearings of the Freedom Support Act and the Trafficking Victims Protection Act, Williams calls attention to the production and operation of five types of "gendered Russian imaginaries" that were explicitly used to bolster support for and legitimize U.S. geopolitical unilateralism after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, demonstrating the ways that the masculinization of U.S. military, political, and financial power after 1991 paved the way for the invasion of Iraq in 2003.
LC Classification NumberHQ1190.W54 2012
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