The Wars We Inherit: Military Life, Gender Violence, and Memory

By Lori E. Amy

By combining personal memoir and critical analysis, Lori Amy links the violence we live in our homes to the violence that structures our larger culture. The Wars We Inherit brings insights from memory and trauma studies to the story of violence in the author's own family. In this brave, fascinating, and compelling book, Amy confronts the brutality associated with the military. She explores how this institution of public, cultural violence with its hypermasculinity spills over, imbuing society with physical, verbal, emotional, and sexual aggression. Her portrait of her war-veteran father conveys the chaotic and dehumanizing impact of war, illustrating how families experience and remember violence. Amy contends that "if we can begin, in our own lives, to transform the destructive ways that we have been shaped by violence, then we might begin to transform, the cultural conditions that breed violence". Book jacket.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1592139612
• ISBN13: 9781592139613
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.1"