Attachments to War

“Attachments to War provides a set of tools that will be valuable to students and established scholars alike for prizing apart and connecting together these attachments in new and vitally necessary ways.” - Kenneth MacLeish (Medical Anthropology Quarterly) “Terry’s work is eye-opening to a powerful new perspective on the American way of war. Her scholarship is well researched and carefully supported… . A fascinating piece of scholarship concerning a tragically understudied subject.” - James Sandy (H-Diplo, H-Net Reviews) “Terry’s work serves as a critical reminder that biomedicine, ‘as both an epistemological formation and an industry,’ sutures war to care, laboring to convince the public that the knowledge produced through warfare justifies its violence. The crucial work of dismantling US empire, Terry reminds her reader, is to reject that ‘labyrinth of excuses.’” - Jennifer Kelly (Radical History Review)

Jennifer Terry is Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of California, Irvine, the author of An American Obsession: Science, Medicine, and Homosexuality in Modern Society, and coeditor of Processed Lives: Gender and Technology in Everyday Life and Deviant Bodies: Critical Perspectives on Difference in Science and Popular Culture.