Gendering war talk / edited by Miriam Cooke and Angela Woollacott.

Essays written during and immediately after a ten-week institute held at Dartmouth College during the spring of 1990.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-328) and index.

Presenting the unpresentable. Gendered translations : Claude Lanzmann's Shoah / Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer -- Spectacular bodies : gender, terror, and Argentina's "Dirty War" / Diana Taylor -- War mythopoeia. The threshold of thrill : life stories in the skies over Southeast Asia / Stanley D. Rosenberg -- Techno-muscularity and the "boy eternal" : from the quagmire to the gulf / Lynda E. Boose -- Home/front? Notes toward a feminist peace politics / Sara Ruddick -- Sisters and brothers in arms : family, class, and gendering in World War I Britain / Angela Woollacott -- Daughtering in war : two "case studies" from Mexico and Guatemala.

Irene Matthews -- Engendering language. Not so quiet in no-woman's-land / Margaret R. Higonnet -- Wars, wimps, and women : talking gender and thinking war / Carol Cohn -- The politics of representation. Sexual fantasies and war memories : Claude Simon's narratology / Lynn A. Higgins -- Danger on the home front : motherhood, sexuality, and disabled veterans in American postwar films / Sonya Michel.

Interpretive essay. The bomb's womb and the genders of war (war goes on preventing women from becoming the mothers of invention) / Klaus Theweleit.