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100	1		_aCLARK Lindsay C
245			_aDelivering life, delivering death: _breaper drones, hysteria and maternity/ _cLindsay C Clark
260			_c2022
520			_aLike 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.
650			_aCULTURAL REPRESENTATION _xDRONE WARFARE _xGENDER _xMOTHERHOOD _xWOMEN SOLDIERS
773			_aSecurity Dialogue : _gVol.53, No.1, February 2022. pp.75-92 (47)
598			_aSECURITY
856			_uhttps://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0967010621997628 _zClick here for full text
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