Weary Warriors

Pamela Moss is a Professor in Human and Social Development at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. She co-authored with Isabel Dyck of Women, Body, Illness (Rowman and Littlefield, 2003), edited with Katherine Teghtsoonian Contesting Illness (University of Toronto Press, 2008), and wrote and edited with Karen Falconer Al-Hindi Feminisms in Geography (Rowman and Littlefield, 2008). She is working on a book manuscript about women’s tired bodies entitled Fatigue.

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Preface

Acknowledgments



Introduction: Weary Warriors Walk Among Us: Combat, Knowledge Circulation, and Naming Traumatized Soldiers



Chapter 1. Ravished Minds and Ill Bodies: Power, Embodiment, Dispositifs

Chapter 2. Unsettling Notions: War Neuroses, Soldiering, and Broken Embodiments

Chapter 3. Classifying Bodies through Diagnosis: Knowledges, Locations, and Categorical Enclosures

Chapter 4. Managing Illness through Power: Regulation, Resistance and Truth Games

Chapter 5. Cultural Accounts of the Soldier as Subject: Folds, Disclosures and Enactments

Chapter 6. Fixing Soldiers: The Treatment of Bodies, Minds, and Souls

Chapter 7. The Soldier in Context: Psychiatric Practices, Military Imperatives, and Masculine Ideals

Chapter 8. Soldiering On: Care of Self, Status Passages, and Citizenship Claims

Chapter 9. Military Bodies and Battles Multiple: Embodied Trauma, Ontological Politics, and Patchwork Warriors



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