Hegemonic Masculinities and Camouflaged Politics: Unmasking the Bush Dynasty and Its War Against Iraq

Analyzing the speeches of the two Bush presidencies, this book presents a new conceptualization of hegemonic masculinity by making the case for a multiplicity of hegemonic masculinites locally, regionally, and globally. This book outlines how state leaders may appeal to particular hegemonic masculinites in their attempt to 'œsell'� wars and thereby camouflage salient political practices in the process. Messerschmidt offers a fresh historical perspective on the war against Iraq over an 18-year period, and he argues that we cannot truly understand this war outside of its gendered (masculine) and historical context.

James W. Messerschmidt is Professor of Sociology in the Criminology Department and in the Women's and Gender Studies Program at the University of Southern Maine. Among his many well-known books are: The Trial of Leonard Peltier and Flesh and Blood: Adolescent Gender Diversity and Violence.