Women and War

Jean Bethke Elshtain

 Women and War
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Jean Bethke Elshtain

318 pages | 3 halftones | 5-1/4 x 8 | © 1987, 1995
Paper $30.00 ISBN: 9780226206264 Published July 1995
Jean Elshtain examines how the myths of Man as "Just Warrior" and Woman as "Beautiful Soul" serve to recreate and secure women's social position as noncombatants and men's identity as warriors. Elshtain demonstrates how these myths are undermined by the reality of female bellicosity and sacrificial male love, as well as the moral imperatives of just wars.
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