Imagining Russia
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Imagining Russia

Making Feminist Sense of American Nationalism in U.S.–Russian Relations

  1. 299 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Imagining Russia

Making Feminist Sense of American Nationalism in U.S.–Russian Relations

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright Page
  3. List of Figure
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Introduction: Imagining Russia
  6. Chapter 1: The Geopolitical Traffic in Gendered Russian Imaginaries
  7. Chapter 2: Freedom for Whom? Support for What?
  8. Chapter 3: Death and the Maiden
  9. Chapter 4: Crime, Corruption, and Chaos
  10. Chapter 5: “It's a Cold War Mentality“
  11. Chapter 6: Cultural Politics of Cold War
  12. Conclusion: Casualties of Cold War
  13. Appendix
  14. Notes
  15. Bibliography