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A SOLDIER AND A WOMAN

Women And Men In History

This series, published for students, scholars and interested general readers, will tackle themes in gender history from the early medieval period through to the present day. Gender issues are now an integral part of all history courses and yet many traditional texts do not reflect this change. Much exciting work is now being done to redress the gender imbalances of the past, and we hope that these books will make their own substantial contribution to that process. This is an open-ended series, which means that many new titles can be included. We hope that these will both syrUhesise and shape future developments in gender studies.

The General Editors of the series are Patricia Skinner (University of Southampton! for the medieval period; Pamela Sharpe (University of Bristol) for the early modern period: and Penny Summerfteld {University of Lancaster) for the modern period, Margaret Walsh (University of Nottingham) was the Founding Editor of the series.

Published books:

Imperial Women in Byzantium 1025-1204: Power, Patronage and Ideology
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Masculinity in Medieval Europe
D.M. Hadley (ed.)

Widowhood in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Sandra Cawallo and Lyndan Warner (eds)

Gender and Society in Renaissance Italy
Judith C. Brown and Robert C. Davis (eds)

Gender, Church and State in Early Modern Germany; Essays by Merry E. Wiesner
Merry E. Wiesner

Manhood in Early Modern England: Honour, Sex and Marriage
Elizabeth W. Foyster

English Masculinities 1660-1800
Tum Hitchcock and Michle Cohen

Disorderly Women in Eighteenth-Century London: Prostitution in the Metropolis 1730-1830
Tony Henderson

Gender, Power and the Unitarians in England, 1760-1860
Ruth Watts

Women and Work in Russia, 1880-1930: A Study in Continuity through Change
Jane MrDermid and Anna Hillyar

The Family Story: Blood. Contract and Intimacy, 1830-1960
Lenore Davidoff, Megan Doolittle, Janet Fink and Katherine Holden

More than Munitions: Women, Work and the Engineering Industries 1900-1950
Clare Wightman

Women and the Second World War in France, 1939-1948
Hanna Diamond

A Soldier and A Woman

Sexual Integration in the Military

edited by
Gerard J. DeGroot and
Corinna Peniston-Bird

First published 2000 by Pearson Education Limited

Published 2014
by Routledge
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ISBN 13: 978-0-582-41438-9 (pbk)

British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
A soldier and a woman: sexual integration in the military / edited by Gerard J. DeGroot and C.M. Peniston-Bird.

p. cm. (Women and men in history)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 0582414393 (alk. paper) ISBN 0582414385 (pbk.: alk. paper)

1. Women soldiersHistory. I. De Groot, Gerard J., 1955 II. Peniston-Bird, C.M. III. Series.

UB416.S65 2000
355'.0082dc21

00021675

Typeset by 35 in 11/13pt Baskerville MT

TO
LIEUTENANT-COLONEL
JANET ANN BORCH,
US ARMY
in every sense a soldier and a woman
AND
NICOLA F. PENISTON-BIRD
AMANDA C. PENISTON-BIRD
for their example and resolution

Contents

Gerard J. DeGroot

Brian Crim

Scott JV. Hendrix

Christopher Schmitz

Laurie Stoff

Helen Praeger Young

Gerard J. DeGroot

Penny SummeTfield

Margaret Collins Weitz

Reina Pennington

Corinna PenistonBird

Karen Turner

Edward J. Rielly

Kathryn M. Coughlin

Nicole F. Ladewig

Dafna JV. Izraeli

Susan M. Rigdon

Catherine Taylor

Lance Janda

Corinna PenistonBird

Fred L. Boreh III

This book represents a labour of love. It is a subject of subtle nuance and cruel irony which inspires endless fascination, not to mention considerable frustration. During the course of writing and editing we have come to understand more deeply the role of women in society, the connection between service and citizenship, and the way that gender distinctions constrain both men and women.

We are aware that this is an ever-developing topic that, in fact, provides much of its fascination. But we are also aware that, though great strides have been made in the sexual integration of some militaries, many of the problems which women soldiers face today are no different from those they have always faced. While military experience has changed women, women have not had great success in changing the military.

Progress is nevertheless evident, and that progress inspired the decision to divide the book into two distinct sections. Although 1945 is not by any means an identifiable watershed, it does nevertheless seem that the experiences of women in the military have changed more significantly since the Second World War than in the centuries before it. Before 1945 women's participation in the military was usually seen as a regrettable necessity brought about by wartime demands for labour. Because the participation of women in the military was often seen as unfortunate and sometimes as embarrassing, societies were keen to forget their contribution.

Since 1945, female military participation has been grafted onto a powerful feminist ethic. Though women have still contributed to wars out of necessity, there has in addition arisen a significant 'right to fight' movement which seeks to break down the barriers to service. That service has, in addition, proved a great deal more difficult to camourflage. Women are demanding expanded opportunities within the military and more recognition of their contribution. Recognition has not only come in the usual forms of medals and pensions, but also in a greater awareness of the special problems which women encounter in their service within what remains a distinctly masculine institution.

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