Laurie Weinstein, Christie White

Wives and Warriors (eBook, PDF)

Women and the Military in the United States and Canada

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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 military 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. April 1997
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313029578
• Artikelnr.: 37808131

Autorenporträt

LAURIE WEINSTEIN is Associate Professor of Anthropology, Western Connecticut State University where she directs the Archaeology program and co-directs the Women's Studies program.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Cynthia Enloe Introduction Wives Blue Navy Blue: Submarine
Officers and the Two-Person Career by Laurie Weinstein and Helen Mederer
The Social Networks of Naval Officers' Wives: Their Composition and
Function by Barbara Marriott Gender, the Military, and Military Family
Support by Deborah Harrison and Lucie LaLiberte Warriors The "Military
Academy": Metaphors of Family for Pedagogy and Public Life by Abigail E.
Adams Women in Combat: The U.S. Military and the Impact of the Persian Gulf
War by Georgia Clark Sadler Behind the Front Lines: Feminist Battles Over
Women in Combat by Lucinda Joy Peach Warriors Under Fire Sexual Harassment
in the Army by Lynn Meola Conduct Unbecoming: Second Annual Report on
"Don't Ask, Don't Tell, Don't Pursue" by C. Dixon Osburn and Michele M.
Benecke Understanding Women's Exit from the Canadian Forces: Implications
for Integration? by Karen D. Davis Policing the U.S. Military's Race and
Gender Lines by Francine D'Amico Appendix: Tailhook: Deinstitutionalizing
the Military's "Woman Problem" by Francine D'Amico Selected Bibliography
Index