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"""It is impossible to understand the Marine Corps without appreciating how much gender has shaped its institutional culture. By placing gender at the heart of his analysis, Mark Folse’s sophisticated work thus greatly advances our understanding of the Marine Corps’ history in the twentieth century.""—Heather P. Venable, associate professor of military and security studies in the Department of Airpower at the United States Air Force’s Air Command and Staff College, and author of How the Few Became the Proud: Crafting the Marine Corps Mystique 1874–1918 ""A fascinating history of how the few became the proud, Globe and Anchor Men exposes the Marine Corps' efforts to secure legitimacy, funding, and public approval by idolizing Marines as the epitome of physical, mental, and moral manliness. Chivalrous, brave, and strong, the ideal Marine both inspired and excluded, adapted and retrenched, and left a legacy that continues to ripple today.""—Kara Dixon Vuic, LCpl. Benjamin W. Schmidt Professor of War, Conflict, and Society in Twentieth-Century America at Texas Christian University, and author of The Girls Next Door: Bringing the Home Front to the Front Lines ""Does the Marine Corps make men or does manhood make the Marines? The answer is complex, and it is both, as Mark Folse shows us in his well-researched study of U.S. Marine Corps identity formation in the early twentieth century. Marine Corps identity changed as American ideas about masculinity shifted, and Folse convincingly illustrates that there is not a fixed definition of what it means to be a soldier.""—Heather Marie Stur, author of Beyond Combat: Women and Gender in the Vietnam War Era"

"""It is impossible to understand the Marine Corps without appreciating how much gender has shaped its institutional culture. By placing gender at the heart of his analysis, Mark Folse's sophisticated work thus greatly advances our understanding of the Marine Corps' history in the twentieth century.""--Heather P. Venable, associate professor of military and security studies in the Department of Airpower at the United States Air Force's Air Command and Staff College, and author of How the Few Became the Proud: Crafting the Marine Corps Mystique 1874-1918 ""A fascinating history of how the few became the proud, Globe and Anchor Men exposes the Marine Corps' efforts to secure legitimacy, funding, and public approval by idolizing Marines as the epitome of physical, mental, and moral manliness. Chivalrous, brave, and strong, the ideal Marine both inspired and excluded, adapted and retrenched, and left a legacy that continues to ripple today.""--Kara Dixon Vuic, LCpl. Benjamin W. Schmidt Professor of War, Conflict, and Society in Twentieth-Century America at Texas Christian University, and author of The Girls Next Door: Bringing the Home Front to the Front Lines ""Does the Marine Corps make men or does manhood make the Marines? The answer is complex, and it is both, as Mark Folse shows us in his well-researched study of U.S. Marine Corps identity formation in the early twentieth century. Marine Corps identity changed as American ideas about masculinity shifted, and Folse convincingly illustrates that there is not a fixed definition of what it means to be a soldier.""--Heather Marie Stur, author of Beyond Combat: Women and Gender in the Vietnam War Era"

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Mark Ryland Folse is a historian at the U.S. Army Center of Military History in Washington, DC, and the author of Operation Enduring Freedom: The United States Army in Afghanistan, September 2001–March 2002.

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