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• W1569504360 abstract "Unmaking War, Remaking Men: How Empathy can Reshape our Politics, our Soldiers and Ourselves Kathleen Barry North Melbourne, Spinifex Press, 2010. 246pp. ISBN 0982796706 $34.95 AUD (paperback) Unmaking War, Remaking Men Unmaking War is an unusually outing for Kathleen Barry who is known for her work on prostitution. (1) Barry covers a wide range of topics, such as the construction of masculinity, militarism and nationalism. Despite the book's wide scope, the finished product is a powerful critique of militarism and breaks new ground with its discussion of empathy, core masculinity and the possibility of remaking men. At its core Unmaking War is a book about the importance of empathy and the damaging effects of a lack of empathy in a nation. Unmaking War provides a fresh and broad reaching critique of militarised masculinity. The book explores how militarism intersects with masculinity in a wide range of social contexts. Using an informal and personal style of writing Barry explores post 9-11 society. Unmaking War sits at a unique intersection, writing on ethics, gender studies, international politics and sociology. Each chapter covers a different facet of militarised masculinity in an anecdotal fashion rich with personal stories and insights. The first chapter investigates the value of human life and how masculinity serves to make men expendable. The second, third, and fourth chapters chart the militarisation of men from civilian life, through military training and to the battlefield. The fifth, sixth and seventh chapters explore these practices in the world stage and studies how world leaders have come to accept men's expandability. Chapters eight to ten explore recent conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan and Lebanon though individual stories and anecdotes. Chapters ten though thirteen explore the damage that militarised masculinity does to men, and the possibility of reforming men in a more equitable fashion. Each chapter is full of deeply personal examples and stories from individuals that have experienced conflict and military training to provide a powerful critique of masculinity. Unmaking War, Remaking Men fills an important place in the literature on masculinity and warfare. Barry's position as a feminist writing about men connects her work to other authors who have challenged militarisation such as Myriam Miedzian, Jean Bethke Elshtain and Cynthia Enloe. (2) Barry's personal style of writing is notably similar to Enloe's pioneering work on the militarisation. As Barry's focus in this book is primarily on men and masculinity, rather than their effect on women, its scholarship is also connected to authors who have worked on military masculinity such as R.W. Connell, Joshua Goldstein and Rachel Woodward. (3) Despite the many potential intersections Unmaking War does not interact with these various literatures. The three most substantial contributions of Unmaking War, are its analysis of expendability, core masculinity and the politics of empathy. Barry is not the first author to challenge men's expendability. However, Unmaking War provides a clear and coherent critique, not only on the morality of expendability, but also on its damaging effect for men's relationships with women. Barry suggests that men's self-awareness of expendability 'is a corollary to the sexual objectification of girls and women who are socialized to know themselves as sexual objects, a powerful and destructive process that is fed by what I have called elsewhere the prostitution of sexuality' (p.12). Her analysis of how men are made to accept the possibility of their violent demise is very strong. However, the work could have been improved by integrating the wide range of feminist and pro-feminist literature on the price of masculinity, such as Miedzian's and Goldstein's discussion on the military or Don Sabo and Michael Messner's work on injury and sport. (4) Unmaking War also pioneers the notion of core masculinity. …" @default.
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