Gender Trouble in the U.S. Military

Gender Trouble in the U.S. Military
Author: Stephanie Szitanyi
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2019-11-26
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 3030212254

This book investigates challenges to the U.S. military’s gender regime of hetero-male privilege. Examining a broad set of discursive maneuvers in a series of cases as focal points—integration of open homosexuality, the end of the combat ban on women, and the epidemic nature of military sexual assault within its units—Stephanie Szitanyi examines the contemporary link between gender and military service in the United States, and comprehensively analyzes forms of gendering produced by the military as an institution. Using feminist interpretivist methods to analyze an impressive combination of visual, textual, archival, and cultural materials, the book argues that despite policy changes since 2013 that may be positioned as explicit episodes of degendering, military officials have simultaneously moved to counteract them and reinforce the institution’s gender regime of hetero-male privilege. Importantly, these (re)gendering processes continue to prioritize certain forms of service and sacrifice, through which a specific version of masculinity—the masculine warrior—is continuously promoted, preserved, and cemented.

Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations for 2016: Hearing: related agencies; American Battle Monuments Commission; Arlington National Cemetery; U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims; Armed Forces Retirement Home; Outside witness testimony: American Psychological Association

Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations for 2016: Hearing: related agencies; American Battle Monuments Commission; Arlington National Cemetery; U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims; Armed Forces Retirement Home; Outside witness testimony: American Psychological Association
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1532
Release: 2015
Genre: United States
ISBN: