Introduction: reading international relations through bodies, reading the maternal body as political event
The vicissitudes of life: women's complex entanglement with peace and war
Shifting the gaze from hysterical mothers to deadly dads: spectacle and the antinuclear movement
Mothers, biopolitics and the Gulf War
Grieving dead soldiers, disavowing loss: Cindy Sheehan and the im/possibility of the American antiwar movement
Conclusion: the maternal body as alibi: understanding the centrality of the maternal body to sovereign representation.