Coriolanus (Vol. 30) | Coppélia Kahn (essay date 1992)
Coppélia Kahn (essay date 1992)
SOURCE: "Mother of Battles: Volumnia and Her Son in Shakespeare's Coriolanus," in differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, Vol. 4, No. 2, Summer, 1992, pp. 154-70.
[In the following essay, Kahn explores the "interaction between mothering and warmaking" in the relationship between Coriolanus and Volumnia.]
During the fall and winter of 1990-1991, all over the world people watched a familiar scene on television: members of the U.S. armed forces engaged in the business of war, this time in the Persian Gulf. Clad in bulky, camouflage-printed fatigues, they all looked like soldiers. Of course, some of them were women. Though women's branches of the Navy and Army had participated in World War II, the Korean War, and the war in Vietnam, this time it was different. No longer mainly secretaries and nurses, though technically they still did not fight in direct combat, women in large numbers took...
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