Overview

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.

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Author:   Laurie Weinstein ,  Christie White ,  Cynthia Enloe
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Praeger Publishers Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.562kg
ISBN:  

9780897894913

ISBN 10:   089789491
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   30 April 1997
Recommended Age:   From 7 to 17 years
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

"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"

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LAURIE WEINSTEIN is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Western Connecticut State University. She is codirector of Western's Women's Studies Program. As a former Navy wife, Dr. Weinstein has published numerous articles on military wives, but she is best known for her works on Native Americans, including The Wampanoag (1989) and Enduring Traditions: The Native Peoples of New England (Bergin & Garvey, 1994). CHRISTIE WHITE is pursuing a Ph.D. at Northeastern University. Her interests include gender and minority studies, labor issues, and deviance and social control.

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