Body Count - Gender and Soldier Identity in Australia and the United States

War and combat dominate our television screens newspapers and cinemas.War stories are omnipresent - and they are always gendered. This book is anexploration of the gendered body in combat in the late twentieth century inAustralia and the United States of America. Aspects of military history andrepresentations of war and warriors are used as the vehicle for the analysis ofthe politics of representing gender. In this work the mythic the material andthe media(ted) body of the gendered warrior are examined in the realms of'real' military histories and news coverage and in the 'speculative' arena ofpopular culture. What are the continuities and ruptures inherent in thegendered narratives of war and warriors? Can understanding them exposethe operation of gender politics in the public arena? This book will be of useto people interested in gender politics popular culture and representationsof war.