Sex and Gender in Nuclear Dialogues

In this episode, we continue unpacking the history of nuclear issues in international relations and traditional (Western) conceptions of nuclear weapons/technology. Utilizing feminism and queer theory, we look at the ways in which nuclear dialogues have been gendered and sexed throughout American foreign policy.
Sex and Death in the Rational World of Defense Intellectuals
Slick 'Ems, Glick 'Ems, Christmas Trees, and Cookie Cutters: Nuclear Language and How We Learned to Pat the Bomb
A Feminist Nuclear Policy
A Feminist Analysis of Nuclear Weapons: Hegemonic Masculinity
A Feminist Critique of the Atomic Bomb
Carol Cohn
Queer Ecologies of Death in the Lab: Rethinking Waste, Decomposition and Death through a Queerfeminist Lens
Music: https://www.purple-planet.com
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