This book is about the women who serve the military as wives and those who serve as soldiers, sailors, and flyers. Comparing wives and warriors in the U.S. and Canada, it examines how the military in both countries constructs gender to exclude women from being respected as equals to men. Written by a wide range of scholars and military personnel, the book covers such contemporary issues as the opening of military academies to women, the opening of combat posts to women, the experience of being a wife in the two-person career of an officer-husband, sexual harassment, turnover of women in the armed services, and U.S. and Canadian policies allowing gays and lesbians to serve in the military. Part of an emerging feminist scholarship in eilitary studies, this work also explores how gender has been constructed to maintain the status quo and women's narrowly defined roles as the dependent helpmates of men.
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A fascinating study of women who serve the military as wives or as soldiers, sailors, and flyers, with emphasis on current issues, written by a wide range of scholars and military professionals.
--This text refers to the Hardcover edition.About the Author
LAURIE WEINSTEIN is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Western Connecticut State University.
CHRISTIE WHITE is pursuing a Ph.D. at Northeastern University.
CHRISTIE WHITE is pursuing a Ph.D. at Northeastern University.
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These anonymous women are our unsung heroines who for more than 200 years braved wars to tend to their husbands, trekked the great American deserts and plains of the West, crossed the rolling waters of the Pacific, and survived violent political upheavals worldwide. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
gay servicemembers, drawdown cuts, lesbian servicemembers, combat bonding, selective criminal prosecution, gay discharges, military family support, ship exclusion, combat exclusion laws, civilian wives, direct ground combat, military women, gay policy, military wives, justice feminists, combat restrictions, combat aviation, gay troops, military wife, reporting sexual harassment, family support program, black personnel, inquiry officers, combat posts, combat roles Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Canadian Forces, United States, Marine Corps, Don't Pursue, Department of Defense, Persian Gulf War, Cold War, African Americans, Break Out, Sage Publications, Secretary of Defense, Washington Post, Cynthia Enloe, Presidio Press, Supreme Court, Roanoke Times, Don't Harass, Emotional Aid, University of California Press, Loaded Questions, National Defence Headquarters, Task Force, Wendy Chapkis, Beverly Hills New!
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These anonymous women are our unsung heroines who for more than 200 years braved wars to tend to their husbands, trekked the great American deserts and plains of the West, crossed the rolling waters of the Pacific, and survived violent political upheavals worldwide. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
gay servicemembers, drawdown cuts, lesbian servicemembers, combat bonding, selective criminal prosecution, gay discharges, military family support, ship exclusion, combat exclusion laws, civilian wives, direct ground combat, military women, gay policy, military wives, justice feminists, combat restrictions, combat aviation, gay troops, military wife, reporting sexual harassment, family support program, black personnel, inquiry officers, combat posts, combat roles Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Canadian Forces, United States, Marine Corps, Don't Pursue, Department of Defense, Persian Gulf War, Cold War, African Americans, Break Out, Sage Publications, Secretary of Defense, Washington Post, Cynthia Enloe, Presidio Press, Supreme Court, Roanoke Times, Don't Harass, Emotional Aid, University of California Press, Loaded Questions, National Defence Headquarters, Task Force, Wendy Chapkis, Beverly Hills New!
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- Women in the Military on 10 pages
- Loaded Questions: Women in the Military by Chapkis on 8 pages
- Weak Link: The Feminization of the American Military by Brian Mitchell on 7 pages
- Women and War, with a new epilogue by Jean Bethke Elshtain on 5 pages
- Gay Rights, Military Wrongs: Political Perspectives on Lesbians and Gays in the Military (Garland Reference Library of Social Science) by Craig A. Rimmerman on 5 pages
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- The First Casualty: Violence Against Women in Canadian Military Communities by Deborah Harrison on 4 pages
- Women at War: Gender Issues of Americans in Combat by Rosemarie Skaine in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Anthropology and the United States Military: Coming of Age in the Twenty-First Century by Pamela R. Frese on page 94
- Women and War in the Twentieth Century: Enlisted with or without Consent (Women's History & Culture) by Nicole A. Dombrowski on page 32
- States of Conflict: Gender, Violence and Resistance by Susie Jacobs on page 120
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