Contesting Patriotism

Lynne M. Woehrle is associate professor of sociology at Mount Mary College. Patrick G. Coy is director and associate professor at the Center for Applied Conflict Management at Kent State University. Gregory M. Maney is associate professor of sociology at Hofstra University.

• Chapter 1 Section One: Peace Discourses in a War CultureChapter 2 Chapter 1: Creating Oppositional Knowledge and Promoting an Active DemocracyChapter 3 Chapter 2: To Harness or to Challenge Hegemony? Peace Movements at a Cultural CrossroadsChapter 4 Chapter 3: Reconstructing PatriotismChapter 5 Section Two: Contesting Emotions and Identities in War and PeaceChapter 6 Chapter 4: Capturing Hearts and Minds: Emotions and Peace AppealsChapter 7 Chapter 5: Gods of War, Gods of PeaceChapter 8 Chapter 6: Mobilizing the Margins: Race, Class, Gender and ReligionChapter 9 Section Three: The Changing Present and an Uncertain FutureChapter 10 Chapter 7: Real Solutions for a Safer WorldChapter 11 Chapter 8: Going Global?: Discourses Beyond the Nation-StateChapter 12 Chapter 9: Peace Movement Discourse: Unraveling Hegemony, Spinning New Threads

It is a 234-page serving of some much needed analysis of the modern American peace movement, more specifically, how it has managed to play an important role in balancing the popular discourse about war and patriotism. . . . It is a work of great significance in an area of research that, as the authors themselves point out, has been neglected for far too long.