Reflections on War and Political Discourse: Realism, Just War, and Feminism in a Nuclear Age
Author(s)
Elshtain, Jean Bethke
Abstract
Here, Elshtain examines realism’s givens in light of feminist questions. She assays the most important historical contender against realism’s discursive hegemony, just war theory, with similar questions in mind. She shows that the ways in which feminist thinking on war and politics may get stuck within received discursive forms, reproducing presumptions that deepen rather than challenge the present order. The chapter concludes with an interpretation of Hannah Arendt’s On Violence.
