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Cindy Sheehan
Cindy Sheehan, a peace activist, was moved to begin protesting the Iraq War after her son died fighting in Iraq in April 2004. The harsh criticism that she receives from many is due to her feminist stance and her refusal to accept the role of the "perfect mother." Chapter I of this thesis provides background on Sheehan and discusses the impact she has had on the war in Iraq. Chapter II of this thesis examines how Sheehan uses her motherhood as a basis for her activism in her writings and her speeches. Chapter III of this thesis analyzes the treatment Sheehan has received from various media outlets. Chapter IV discusses the positive and negative aspects of her approaches to her activism and makes suggestions concerning how she could improve her activism to help end the Iraq War as well as to help further women's rights. -- Author's abstract.
Dear President Bush
Sheehan discusses Martin Luther King, Jr., civil disobedience, US foreign policy, New Orleans, military recruitment, her son Casey’s death on his 5th day in Iraq, soliders who resist, and her personal transformation into America’s most outspoken...
Peace Mom
"Writing this book is the second most difficult thing I have ever done, next to burying Casey." On April 4, 2004, Cindy Sheehan learned that Casey, the eldest of her four children, had been killed in Iraq, where he was serving in the United States Army. After struggling through crippling grief for three weeks, she came to an epiphany: "I will spend my life trying to make Casey's sacrifice count for peace and love, not killing and hate." Peace Mom is the heartfelt and profoundly moving story of Cindy's journey to activism. She recounts the dark days following Casey's death, when it seemed her life would never have meaning again. She tells of her June 2004 meeting with President Bush, and how ...
Not One More Mother's Child
"Cindy Sheehan is a moving writer and vibrant storyteller. During her first year of activism, she chronicled her thoughts and actions, and now she shares them for the first time in book form. Reflecting on war and peace, truth and accountability, she takes the Bush administration to task for its corruption and incompetence and tells the story of her own journey from grieving mom to ardent activist. Cindy Sheehan is founder of Gold Star Families for Peace."--BOOK JACKET.
Hell Hath No Fury
This is an analysis of a sample of writings by Cindy Sheehan to identify her rhetorical strategies in her anti-war rhetoric. A selection of artifacts has been made covering the time of her activation after the death of her son through the time of her hunger strike in the summer of 2006. This analysis deems Sheehan as a feminist who arches from second to third wave feminist in voice. It also examines how Sheehan reframes the United States from a country with many small family units to a single national family unit. And finally, this paper will observe how Sheehan violates the expectation of civility with her cynical approach. Combining together, it is found that Sheehan holds many contextual factors that create a unique rhetoric of grief that may not be duplicated if all contextual factors are not identical for another rhetorician.
Cindy Sheehan's Confrontational Iraq War Protests: A Case Study in Contentious Rhetoric
This dissertation examines Cindy Sheehan's Iraq War protests from November 2004 to May 2007 as a case study of contentious rhetoric. The notion of contentious rhetoric is based on the concept of contentious politics developed by sociologist and political scientist Charles Tilly, sociologist Doug McAdam, and political scientist Sidney Tarrow. This new conceptualization acts as a guide to understanding how Sheehan navigates the dichotomy between women and war and how she uses her own motherhood as validation for her protests. I selected a cross section of Sheehan's speeches and online blogs for this analysis and, through a close reading of these texts, looked for themes to emerge that align Sh...
