Regulation of Bodies as Gendered Nationalistic Ideology: Physically Wounded Veterans as Political Props
Using the 2014 State of the Union Address as an example, I show that the public honoring of physically wounded veterans hides the emotional, psychological, social, and moral wounds of military service, creating a normative veteran identity based on mental toughness, and essentializes all veterans as...
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University of Oregon
2015
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1794/19343 |