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Traditional histories of war have typically explored masculine narratives of military and political action, leaving private, domestic life relatively unstudied. This volume expands our understanding by looking at the relationships between mothers and children, and the varied roles both have assumed during periods of armed conflict.

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Prologue: Mother Amitabh Vikram Dwivedi 1. Introduction: The Shenandoah Doctrine: Sons, Soldiers, and Service to the Nation Dana Cooper 2. Mothers, Warfare, and Captivity in the Eastern Woodlands of North America, 1607-1763 John Navin 3. Sailing Sons: The Personal Consequences of Impressment Claire Phelan 4. Las Madres Guerreras: Testimonial Writing on Militant Motherhood in Latin America Tracey Crowe Morey and Cristina Santos 5. The Women´s Resistence Movement in Argentina: Las Madres de Plaza de Mayo Elena Shabliy 6. Japanese Mothers and Rural Settlement in Wartime Manchukuo: Gendered Reflections of Labor and Productivity in Manshu Gurafu [Manchuria Graph], 1936-1943 Annika Culver 7. Dear Ok?san...: An Analysis of Farewell Letters from Kamikaze Pilots to their Mothers Salvador Jimenez Murguia and Benjamin A. Peters 8. Social Trauma and Motherhood in Postwar Spain Lorraine Ryan 9. Barbara Hepworth and War: Themes of Motherhood and Sacrifice in Hepworth´s Madonna And Child, St. Ives Parish Church Lyrica Taylor 10. War [De]Legitimizers: Israeli Military Mothers Udi Lebel 11. Reproducing a Culture of Martyrdom: The Role of the Palestinian Mother in Discourse Construction, Transmission and Legitimization Michael Loadenthal 12. Motherhood as a Space of Political Activism: Iraqi Mothers and the Religious Narrative of Karbala Fatin Shabbar 13. Motherhood and Somali ´Civil´ War: The Experiences of Anguish and Opportunities Mohamed Haji Ingiriis 14. Conclusion: Grieving U.S. Mothers And The Political Representations Of Protest During The Iraq War And Beyond Francis Shor

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Mohamed Haji Ingiriis, Help Somalia Foundation, UK Oluwatosin Akinjobi, Elizade University, Nigeria Annika A. Culver, Florida State University, USA Salvador Murguia, Miyazaki International College, Japan Brett Schmoll, Bard College, USA Lorraine Ryan, University of Birmingham, UK Heidi Andrea Restrepo Rhodes, Asociación Renacer Siglo XXI, Colombia Robert Sierakowski, University of the West Indies at Mona, Jamaica Cristina Santos, Brock Univeristy, Canada Tracy Crowe Morey, Brock University, Canada John Navin, Coastal Carolina University, USA Francis Shor, Wayne State University, USA

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