Delivering life, delivering death: (Record no. 41441)

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Personal name CLARK Lindsay C
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Title Delivering life, delivering death:
Remainder of title reaper drones, hysteria and maternity/
Statement of responsibility, etc. Lindsay C Clark
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Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2022
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Summary, etc. Like all warfare, drone warfare is deeply gendered. This article explores how this military technology sediments or disrupts existing conceptualizations of women who kill in war. The article using the concept of motherhood as a narrative organizing trope and introduces a 'fictional' account of motherhood and drone warfare and data from a 'real life' account of a pregnant British Reaper operator. The article considers the way trauma experienced by Reaper drone crews is reported in a highly gendered manner, reflecting the way women's violence is generally constructed as resulting from personal failures, lost love and irrational emotionality. This irrational emotionality is tied to a long history of medicalizing women's bodies and psychologies because of their reproductive capacities and, specifically, their wombs - explored in this article under the historico-medical term of 'hysteria'. The article argues that where barriers to women's participation in warfare have, in the past, hinged upon their (argued) physical weakness, and where technology renders these barriers obsolete, there remains the tenacious myth that women are emotionally incapable of conducting lethal operations - a myth based on (mis)conceptions of the 'naturalness' of motherhood and the feminine capacity to give life.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element CULTURAL REPRESENTATION
General subdivision DRONE WARFARE
-- GENDER
-- MOTHERHOOD
-- WOMEN SOLDIERS
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Main entry heading Security Dialogue :
Related parts Vol.53, No.1, February 2022. pp.75-92 (47)
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Uniform Resource Identifier <a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0967010621997628">https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0967010621997628</a>
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          Mindef Library & Info Centre Mindef Library & Info Centre Journals 21/07/2022   SECURITY 67382.1001 03/01/2024 1 03/01/2024 Journal Article