Citation

Bar On B. Hypatia 2008; 23(2): 141-154.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2008, Indiana University Press)

DOI

10.1111/j.1527-2001.2008.tb01190.x

PMID

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Abstract

At stake for this essay is the distinction between politics and war and the extent to which politics can survive war. Gender analysis reveals how high these stakes are by revealing the complexity of militarism. It also reveals the impossibility of gender identity as foundation for a more robust politics with respect to war. Instead, a non-ideal normative differentiation among kinds of violence is affirmed as that which politically cannot not be wanted.