Book reviews |
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Authors: | Ron Johnston John Keefe David A Johnson Catherine Merridale |
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Institution: | 1. School of Geographical Sciences , University of Bristol , Bristol, UK;2. London Metropolitan University, and Queen's University (Canada) Bader International Study Centre , UK;3. University of North Carolina , Charlotte;4. Queen Mary University of London |
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Abstract: | This article examines nationalist impulses toward a familiar, traditional heteronormativity through the language and imagery of a sample of tabloid newspapers in Britain during the Falklands War in 1982. In doing so, it asks how tabloid representation of the war created a particular and normative version of ‘Britishness’, central to which was the English woman, whose body became the site for a specific coalescing of race, gender and sexuality; a fixed notion of whiteness and normative heterosexuality located in the particular, unstable cultural space of a struggling ‘post-colonial’ Britain. |
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Keywords: | race nation sexuality gender media |
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