Valiant, vicious, or virtuous? Representation, and the problem of women warriors

Interrogating Imperialism: Conversations on Gender, Race, and War

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 183-205

  Riley, Robin L ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 84992008676     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1057/9780230601710     Document Type: Chapter

References (85)

1. Associated Press. 2003. Ex-POW Johnson is discharged by Army; Lynch captured at same time. Washington Post. December 13, A04.
2. Associated Press.. 2003. For Piestewa, honors and a flap; plan to rename peak is disputed. Washington Post. April 13, A14.
3. Athans, Margo. 2003 Jessica Lynch gets hometown welcome. Baltimore Sun July 23, 1A.
4. Ayala, Elaine. 2004. Former POW in public eye. San Antonio Express-News. October 10, 3K.
5. Ballou, Brian. 2004. Female POW: I got better treatment from the Iraqis. Boston Herald. May 28, 8.
6. Barker, Alllison. 2003. Military used me, ex-POW says. Montreal Gazette. November 8, A15.
7. Barnette, Martha. 2004. Jessica’s journey. Ladies Home Journal. January.
8. Becker, Maki. 2003. POW Jessica was tortured. Daily News. March 3, 7.
9. Beeston, Richard. 2003. Rape claims nonsense say Lynch doctors. The Times (London). November 11, 15.
10. BBC News. 2003. Emotional return for Lynch. July 22. http://news.bbc.co.uk.
11. Blanchfield, Mike. 2003. Myth and mystery: the orchestration of yesterday’s homecoming of US army private. Montreal Gazette. July 23, A18.
12. BrentZook, Crystal. 2003. We don’t see true picture of women in the military. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. July 6, 04J.
13. Brown, Charles W. 2004. Where’s Jessica? myth, nation, and war in America’s heartland. Social Analysis 48 Vol I (1): 81-86
14. Burke, Carol. 2004. Camp all-American, Hanoi Jane, and the high-and-tight: gender, folklore, and changing military culture. Boston: Beacon Press.
15. Byrd, Veronica, and Dan Cohen. 2004. Shoshana Johnson’s story: to hell and back. Essence. March, 66.
16. Clemetson, Lynette. 2004. Report calls for accountability and services to deal with sexual assaults in military. New York Times. May15, 1.
17. Davidson, Osha Gray. 2004. A wrong turn in the desert. Rolling Stone. May 27, 66.
18. Davis, Angela Y. 1981. Women, race, and class. New York: Random House.
19. Douglas, William. 2003. Looking into the face of American heroism. Montreal Gazette. November 10, A16.
20. Eagan, Margery. 2003. Lynch tale stirs desire to believe. Boston Herald. November 9, 018.
21. Editor. 2003. What really happened? Columbus Dispatch. July 26.
22. Enloe, Cynthia. 2000. Maneuvers: the international politics of militarizing women’s lives. Berkeley: University of California Press.
23. Ehrenreich, Barbara, and Arlie Russell Hochschild. 2002. Global woman: nannies, maids, and sex workers in the new economy. New York: Metropolitan Books.
24. Estrade, Bernard. 2003. Medals for US hero who wasn’t. Daily Telegraph (Sydney). July 23, 31.
25. Falsani, Cathleen. 2003. Jackson seeks recognition for former Iraq war POW. Chicago Sun-Times. September 21, 21.
26. Faramarzi, Scheherezade. 2003. Iraqi doctors dismiss claim that Jessica Lynch was raped in hospital. Independent on Sunday (London). November 9, 18.
27. Faw, Bob. 2003. Operation Iraqi freedom. The Today Show. NBC News. March 3.
28. Fields-Meyer, Thomas, Inez Russell, and Rose Ellen O’connor. 2005. Jessica Lynch’s gift: keeping a pledge to a slain pal. People Weekly. May 30, 145.
29. Frazier, Deborah. 2003. Honoring hero’s final wish. Rocky Mountain News. April 12, 1A.
30. Harnden, Toby. 2003. Private Jessica returns and she’s still a hero. Daily Telegraph. July 23, 3.
31. Helmore, Edward. 2003. Private Jessica says president is misusing her heroism. Guardian.November 9, 2.
32. Hockstader, Lee. 2003. Families of other POWs share joy but not relief. Washington Post. April 3, A36.
33. Hockstader, Lee. 2003. Ex-POW’S family accuses army of double standard on benefit. Washington Post. October 23, A03.
34. Hooks, bell. 1992. Black looks: race and representation. Boston: South End Press.
35. Howard, John W., and Laura Prividera, Rescuing patriarchy or saving “Jessica Lynch”: the rhetorical construction of the American woman soldier. Women and Language 27 (2): 89-98.
36. Jehl, Douglas, and Jayson Blair. 2003 A nation at war: the hometown. New York Times. April 3, A3.
37. Johnson Publishing Company. 2003. SPC Shoshana Johnson: former POW gets hero’s welcome. Ebony. August, 46.
38. Jones, David. 2003. So was saving Private Jessica a sham? Daily Mail. May 24, 18-19.
39. Jones, Tamara. 2003. Hope in a hollow for a girl who dreamed. Washington Post. March 26, A01.
40. Kampfner, John. 2003. Saving Private Lynch story flawed. BBC. May 15.
41. Kane, Eugene. 2003. We know all about Jessica, but Shoshana? Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. November 11, 1B.
42. Kareem Nadra. 2003. Spc. Johnson offered scholarships, bakery. El Paso Times. April 23, 1.
43. Kareem, Nadra. 2003. National media vie for Shoshana. El Paso Times. April 24.
44. Kelley, Eileen. 2003. Former POW Lynch to wed Colorado fiance. Denver Post. August 17, A1.
45. Kumar, Deepa. 2004. War propaganda and the (ab)uses of women: media constructions of the Jessica Lynch story. Feminist Media Studies November 4 (3): 297-313.
46. Li, David K., and Bill Sanderson. 2003. Larry Flynt buys purported nude photos of Jessica Lynch. NYPOST.COM. November 11.
47. Lobe, Jim. 2003. Media-US: heroism or hype? IPS Inter-Press Service. May 29.
48. Loeb, Vernon, and Theola Labbe. 2003. Saves lives in Iraq; Pentagon criticized for undersupply of protective vests. Washington Post. December 4, A01.
49. McCarthy, Sheryl. 2004. This former POW takes the stage by storm. Newsday. February 5, A34.
50. McFadden, Kay. 2003. Oh, Shoshana, where’s your TV movie? Seattle Times. November 17, E1.
51. McIntyre, Jamie, and Bill Hemmer.2003. BBC says Pentagon embellished Jessica rescue. CNN Live From the Headlines. May 18.
52. Mitchell, Mary. 2003. Three soldiers tales show splits along racial lines. Chicago Sun-Times. November 13, 14.
53. Monaghan, Elaine. 2003. Tribe mourns first US servicewoman to be killed. The Times. April 7.
54. Monaghan, Elaine. 2003. German records back sodomy claim. The Times (London). November 11, 15.
55. Moore, Robert. 2003. “507’s Piestewa ‘stood and fought’ at ambush.” El Paso Times. April 24, 1.
56. Murphy, Dennis. 2003. Saving Private Lynch. Dateline NBC. April 6.
57. North, Andrew. 2003. The other side of the Lynch story. BBC News. November 11.
58. Perez, Luis. 2004. Pushing the right buttons. Newsday. January 1, A5.
59. Phillipps, Dave. 2003. Jessica Lynch to wed Army sergeant. Washington Post. November 3, C5.
60. Price, G. Jefferson. 2003. Distractions won’t hide truth about war in Iraq. Baltimore Sun. July 27, 3C.
61. Reid, T. R. 2003. In Tuba City, Arizona, pride and sorrow. Washington Post. April 6, A30.
62. Roberts, Dorothy. 1997. Killing the black body: race, reproduction, and the meaning of liberty. New York: Random House.
63. Rush, George. 2003. Jessica’s hustled: porn mag to run topless pics of GI. New York Daily News. November 11, 3.
64. Russell, Jan Jarboe. 2003. Women already doing their part for America on front.
65. Russell, Jan Jarboe. San Antonio Express News. March 27, 7B.
66. Sawyer, Diane. 2003. Private Jessica Lynch: an American story. Prime Time Live Special Edition. ABC News.
67. Scheer, Robert. 2003. Saving Private Jessica Lynch, take 2. Startribune.com. May 23.
68. Schmidt, Susan, and Vernon Loeb. 2003. She was fighting to the death: details emerging of W. Va soldier’s capture and rescue. Washington Post. April 3, A1.
69. Shaffer, Mark. 2004. Piestewa family assails video airing. AZCENTRAL.com. January 1.
70. Shankar, Thom, and John Broder. 2003. A nation at war: liberated: the rescue of Private Lynch. New York Times. March 3, B10.
71. Siemaszko, Corey. 2003. Jessi: “Army used me.” New York Daily News. November 7, 9.
72. Sisk, Richard. 2004. The women of war in Iraq, death knows no front line, nor gender. New York Daily News. December 14, 43.
73. Steelhammer, Rick. 2003. POW from West Virginia rescued. Charlestown Gazette. April 2.
74. Stockman, Farah. 2003. Missing in action on Arizona reservation. Boston Globe. March 30, A 29.
75. Tamayo, Juan. 2003. Iraqis lead US troops to POWS; seven rescued. Montreal Gazette. April 14, A3.
76. Tickner, J. Ann. 1992. Gender in international relations: feminist perspectives on achieving global security. New York: Columbia University Press.
77. Wadler, Joyce. 2003. If you don’t buy her book, the terrorists win. New York Times. November 12. www.nytimes.com.
78. Weber, David. 2003. Iraq doctors say Lynch didn’t suffer sexual assault. Boston Herald. November 8, 6.
79. Weiser, Irene. 2004. One hundred twelve women assaulted in Iraq, Afghanistan.
80. Common Dreams. May 18. http://www.commondreams.org/cgi
81. White, Josh. 2004. Soldier to face military court in N.C. Pfc England’s hearing in prisoner case first on US soil. Washington Post. May 29, A18
82. Whoriskey, Peter. 2003. In Lynch country, a puzzled kind of pride. Washington Post. July 22, A01.
83. Wichterich, Christa.2000. The globalized woman: reports from a future of inequality. London: Zed Books.
84. Yardley, Jim. 2003. A nation at war: the prisoner’s families.” New York Times. March 26, 7.
85. Younge, Gary. 2003. Private Lynch’s comrade in arms finds sad place in a nation’s history. Sun Herald. April 13, 24.