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Rethinking the beginning of the ‘nuclear age’ through telling feminist nuclear stories
Bringing a feminist perspective to the global politics of nuclear weapons not only allows us to expand who and what counts as worthy of study in nuclear politics, but also contests core ideas and narratives that have shaped the literature to date. This paper asks how telling feminist nuclear stories...
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2022
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9798939/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s42597-022-00082-8 |
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description | Bringing a feminist perspective to the global politics of nuclear weapons not only allows us to expand who and what counts as worthy of study in nuclear politics, but also contests core ideas and narratives that have shaped the literature to date. This paper asks how telling feminist nuclear stories rooted in an understanding of the everyday impacts of nuclear weapons challenges the traditional nuclear history. The standard history of ‘the bomb’ focuses on the military-industrial development of the Manhattan Project in the context of World War II, focusing on the figure of the elite male scientist as embodying the unique moral dilemmas of a new ‘nuclear age’. Feminist stories of the development of the first atomic weapons can instead illuminate the marginalised bodies and expansive, everyday harms of the development of nuclear weapons technology, altering both the timeline and the space of nuclear politics. |
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spelling | pubmed-97989392022-12-30 Rethinking the beginning of the ‘nuclear age’ through telling feminist nuclear stories Considine, Laura Z Friedens und Konflforsch Forum Bringing a feminist perspective to the global politics of nuclear weapons not only allows us to expand who and what counts as worthy of study in nuclear politics, but also contests core ideas and narratives that have shaped the literature to date. This paper asks how telling feminist nuclear stories rooted in an understanding of the everyday impacts of nuclear weapons challenges the traditional nuclear history. The standard history of ‘the bomb’ focuses on the military-industrial development of the Manhattan Project in the context of World War II, focusing on the figure of the elite male scientist as embodying the unique moral dilemmas of a new ‘nuclear age’. Feminist stories of the development of the first atomic weapons can instead illuminate the marginalised bodies and expansive, everyday harms of the development of nuclear weapons technology, altering both the timeline and the space of nuclear politics. Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden 2022-12-29 /pmc/articles/PMC9798939/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s42597-022-00082-8 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Forum Considine, Laura Rethinking the beginning of the ‘nuclear age’ through telling feminist nuclear stories |
title | Rethinking the beginning of the ‘nuclear age’ through telling feminist nuclear stories |
title_full | Rethinking the beginning of the ‘nuclear age’ through telling feminist nuclear stories |
title_fullStr | Rethinking the beginning of the ‘nuclear age’ through telling feminist nuclear stories |
title_full_unstemmed | Rethinking the beginning of the ‘nuclear age’ through telling feminist nuclear stories |
title_short | Rethinking the beginning of the ‘nuclear age’ through telling feminist nuclear stories |
title_sort | rethinking the beginning of the ‘nuclear age’ through telling feminist nuclear stories |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9798939/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s42597-022-00082-8 |
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