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Giving Peace a Chance? |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: Phyllis Zagano |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/1988 |
| Size: 2,294 Words, 13,802 Characters |
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WOMEN AND WAR
Jean Bethke Elshtain
New York: Basic Books, 1987
288 pp., $19.95
This book is dedicated to the late John Lennon and notes in a concluding chapter that "peace is an ontologically suspect concept, as troubling in its own way as war." We are left to ponder the question of what other choices we have as the final page is turned and we no longer have the erudite company of political scientist Jean Bethke Elshtain.
Her tour through a supermarket of wartime memorabilia filled with films, popular novels, and newspaper accounts of military engagements begins with her appropriation of Hegel's concept of the "beautiful soul," which she says he characterizes as "a being defined by a mode of consciousness which allows him or her to protect 'the appearance o...
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...te the physical distinctions among us. Indeed, it is possible that Elshtain has written a book that at its root supports that against which she argues so forcefully: that women cannot hope to change the world because, after all, it's a man's world, and their equal participation in it would pervert their feminine identity. One would have hoped that she at least would have given peace a chance.
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