Williams Imagining Russia

Making Feminist Sense of American Nationalism in U.S.–Russian Relations
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-4384-3977-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 299 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Williams, Kimberly A.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List 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

Über Autor(innen)

Kimberly A. Williams is Assistant Professor of Women's Studies at Mount Royal University.