Gendered Tropes in War Photography
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Gendered Tropes in War Photography

Mothers, Mourners, Soldiers

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Gendered Tropes in War Photography

Mothers, Mourners, Soldiers

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About This Book

Photographic stills of women, appearing in both press coverage and relief campaigns, have long been central to the documentation of war and civil conflict. Images of non-Western women, in particular, regularly function as symbols of the misery and hopelessness of the oppressed. Featured on the front pages of newspapers and in NGO reports, they inform public understandings of war and peace, victims and perpetrators, but within a discourse that often obscures social and political subjectivities.

Uniquely, this book deconstructs – in a systematic, gender-sensitive way – the repetitive circulation of certain images of war, conflict and state violence, in order to scrutinize the role of photographic tropes in the globalized visual sphere. Zarzycka builds on feminist theories of representations of war to explore how the concepts of femininity and war secure each other's intelligibility in photographic practices. This book examines the complex connections between photographic tropes and the individuals and communities they represent, in order to rethink the medium of photography as a discursive and political practice.

This book interrogates both the structure and transmission of contemporary encounters with war, violence, and conflict. It will appeal to advanced students and scholars of gender studies, visual studies, media studies, photography theory, cultural anthropology, cultural studies, and trauma and memory studies.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2016
ISBN
9781317599241
Edition
1
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Gender Studies
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. List of Figures
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Introduction
  9. 1 Mourning Bodies: Photographs of Grief
  10. 2 On Anger, Love, and Shame: Affective Politics of Protest Photographs
  11. 3 Affective Transactions and Faces of Horror: Portraits of Children
  12. 4 “The Uniqueness of Its Figure”: Photographs of Corpses in War Reporting
  13. 5 Stillness en Route: Photographs of Refugees
  14. 6 “Postcards from the War Zone”: Representing Women Soldiers
  15. Conclusion
  16. Index