Media representations and practices that have emerged out of contemporary wars have been well documented by a wide array of books and articles.
These treatments, however, have been less attentive to how cultural constructions of military personnel and war itself figure in the depiction of the incursions in Iraq and Afghanistan.
In Post-Feminist War , Mary Douglas Vavrus argues that all of these identity categories are integral to our understanding of those fighting, saved, or victimized.
Rutgers University Press Postfeminist war: women in the media-military-industrial complex, paperback/mary douglas vavrus
