Imagining Russia: Making Feminist Sense of American by Kimberly A. Williams

Co-winner of the 2009 SUNY Press Dissertation/First booklet Prize in Women’s and Gender reviews, Imagining Russia makes use of U.S.–Russian kinfolk among the autumn of the Soviet Union in 1991 and the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 as a case learn to check the deployment of gendered, racialized, and heteronormative visible and narrative depictions of Russia and Russians in modern narratives of yank nationalism and U.S. overseas coverage. via analyses of numerous key post-Soviet American renowned and political texts, together with the hit tv sequence The West Wing, Washington D.C.’s overseas secret agent Museum, and the legislative hearings of the liberty help Act and the Trafficking sufferers defense Act, Williams calls awareness to the construction and operation of 5 sorts of “gendered Russian imaginaries” that have been explicitly used to reinforce aid for and legitimize U.S. geopolitical unilateralism after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, demonstrating the ways in which the masculinization of U.S. army, political, and fiscal strength after 1991 prepared the ground for the invasion of Iraq in 2003.

“Williams has written a masterful examine the gendered rhetoric produced within the West (and occasionally by means of Russians themselves) to explain post-Soviet Russia within the aftermath of the chilly warfare … hugely recommended.” — CHOICE

“This is a phenomenal ebook and a very good instance of feminist IR research. The thesis and targets are to teach the ideological factors of (asymmetrical and deteriorating) U.S.–Russian family, which Williams convincingly argues are rooted in gendered understandings.” — Valentine M. Moghadam, coeditor of constructing Globalization paintings for ladies: The position of Social Rights and alternate Union Leadership

Kimberly A. Williams is Assistant Professor of Women’s reports at Mount Royal University.