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- Title
Lifetime's Army Wives , or I Married the Media-Military-Industrial Complex.
- Authors
Vavrus, MaryDouglas
- Abstract
Lifetime's Army Wives is its most successful serial drama to date, depicting Army families with loved ones deployed in Afghanistan and Iraq. I argue that Army Wives uses marriage to produce gendered propaganda and advance banal militarism. The program achieves verisimilitude and profitability through Lifetime's alliances with the military-industrial complex and thus frames militarism to appeal to viewers historically the most resistant to the military: women.
- Subjects
AFGHANISTAN; IRAQ; ARMY Wives (Film); MILITARY dependents; MILITARY-industrial complex
- Publication
Women's Studies in Communication, 2013, Vol 36, Issue 1, p92
- ISSN
0749-1409
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1080/07491409.2012.756441