By examining news and documentary media produced since September 11, 2001, Vavrus demonstrates that news narratives that include women use feminism selectively in gender equality narratives. She ultimately asserts that such reporting advances post-feminism, which, in tandem with banal militarism, subtly pushes military solutions for an array of problems women and girls face. 

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

1 Lifetime's Army Wives, or, I Married the

Media-Military-Industrial Complex

2 Counterintuitive Mothering in the

Media-Military-Industrial Complex

3 "No Longer Women, but Soldiers":

The Warrior Women of Television News

4 "This Wasn't the Intended Sacrifice":

Warrior Women and Sexual Violence

Conclusion: Banality's Fatalities

Acknowledgments

Notes

MARY DOUGLAS VAVRUS is an associate professor in the communication studies department at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. She is the author of Postfeminist News: Political Women in Media Culture.