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Wives and Warriors Women and the Military in the United States and Canada

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Laurie Weinstein, Christie White

Foreword by Cynthia Enloe

Book Code: G526

ISBN: 0-89789-526-6

ISBN-13: 978-0-89789-526-2

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272 pages

Bergin & Garvey Paperback

Publication: 4/30/1997

List Price: $36.95 (UK Sterling Price: £21.95)

Availability: Print on demand

Media Type: Paperback

Also Available: Hardcover

Trim Size: 6 1/8 X 9 1/4

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Description: 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.

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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