By Melissa S. Herbert
ISBN-10: 0814735479
ISBN-13: 9780814735473
ISBN-10: 0814735487
ISBN-13: 9780814735480
Drawing on surveys and interviews with virtually three hundred woman army team of workers, Melissa Herbert explores how women's daily activities, equivalent to number of uniform, pastime, or social job, contain the production and new edition of what it skill to be a lady, and especially a girl soldier. Do girls suppose stressed to be "more masculine," to show that they're now not a risk to men's jobs or prestige and to prevent being perceived as lesbians? She additionally examines the function of gender and sexuality within the upkeep of the male-defined army establishment, offering that, greater than sexual harassment or person discrimination, it's the military's masculine ideology--which perspectives army carrier because the area of fellows and as a mechanism for the fulfillment of manhood--which serves to restrict women's participation within the army has elevated dramatically. within the wake of armed clash related to woman army body of workers and several other sexual misconduct scandals, a lot consciousness has eager about what existence is like for girls within the armed companies. Few, despite the fact that, have tested how those girls negotiate an atmosphere that has been based and outlined as masculine.
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