Authored by Ivana Milojević
University of Queensland Press | Non-fiction/Academic | ISBN: 978 0 7022 4969 3 | October 2013 | C Format Paperback | 304pp |
Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1. Communism, utopia: the personal is political
- Salvation
- Progress and regress
- Raising of children and worldview
- Othering
- The failure and the evolution of utopia
Chapter 2. War, dystopia: the holy trinity of militarism, imperialism and nationalism
- Knives, guns and beyond
- Bellicose fantasies of glory
- ‘We’ of the ‘lesser’ people
- Nation-states and nationalisms
Chapter 3. Feminism, eutopia: challenging patriarchy and androcratic masculinities
- Mothers and soldiers
- Masculinity wars
- Men as violence subjects and objects
- Men’s expendable lives
- Feminist eutopia: alternative peace-oriented masculinities and femininities
Chapter 4. Living trauma, eupsychia: the political is personal
- Horizontal and vertical breakdowns
- Concentric cycles and ripple effects
- Past and present traumas
- Post-traumatic growth
Epilogue
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