The Palgrave international handbook of gender and the military /

"The Palgrave International Handbook of Gender and the Military provides a comprehensive overview of the multiple ways in which gender and militaries connect. International and multi-disciplinary in scope, this edited volume provides authoritative accounts of the many intersections through whic...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Woodward, Rachel (Editor), Duncanson, Claire, 1974- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London, United Kingdom : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]
Series:Palgrave handbooks
Subjects:
Sociology, Military.
Women and the military.
Armed Forces > Minorities.
Masculinity.
Sex role.
Sociologie militaire.
Femmes et armée.
Forces armées > Minorités.
Masculinité.
Rôle selon le sexe.
sex role.
Gender studies, gender groups.
Politics & government.
Warfare & defence.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Armed Forces > Minorities
Masculinity
Sex role
Sociology, Military
Women and the military
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Gender and the Military
  • Part 1 Conceptual approaches
  • Liberal feminist approaches
  • Radical and anti-militarism feminism
  • Institutional approaches
  • Organisational sociological approaches
  • Critical military studies and gender
  • Intersections of gender and sexuality
  • Narrative approaches to gender and militarised security
  • Part 2 Exploring state militaries
  • Sexualities in the British armed forces
  • Intimate partner abuse in military households
  • Civilian wives of British military personnel based overseas
  • Military identities amongst deserters from the Zimbabwean armed forces
  • War resistance in apartheid South Africa
  • The recruitment of women in the transition of the Swedish armed forces from conscription to an all-volunteer force
  • Transgender personnel in the US military
  • Military masculinities in the Norwegian defence forces
  • Gender and the recruitment of Commonwealth personnel in the UK
  • Gender and gender-based violence in the Australian defence forces
  • Gender and mental health amongst military personnel
  • The Falklands War and its aftermath for veterans and their families
  • Gender, masculinities and conscientious objection in the Second World War
  • Part 3 State militaries in action
  • Gender integration in the Bundeswehr
  • Gender and peacekeeping
  • Gender, military forces and humanitarian interventions
  • Counterinsurgency operations in Afghanistan and gender
  • The intersection of ethnic and gendered identities in the Israeli defence forces
  • Cohesion and gender in armed forces
  • Gender and military outsourcing
  • Gender and the transition in South Africa from SADF to SANDR
  • Part 4 Non-state militaries and supra national organisations
  • Women and terrorist movements
  • Gender and identity amongst private military security contractors
  • Intersections of gendered and racialized identities in third country security contractors from the global south
  • Women in paramilitary organisations
  • Women and girl soldiers in Sierra Leone
  • Icelandic peacekeepers in international deployments
  • Part 5 Representations
  • Visual representations of women soldiers in Israel
  • Gender, cadets the militarisation of childhood
  • The gendering of military memoirs
  • Representations of military bodies in the 20th century
  • Medals, heroism and military masculinities
  • Gender, militaries and war film
  • The mediatisation of child soldiers in literary fiction and film
  • Gendered representations of soldier deaths in the USA.

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