Gender Ideologies and Military Labor Markets in the US
Gender Ideologies and Military Labor Markets in the US offers a comprehensive analysis of the relationship between changes in military gender ideologies and structural changes in US military and society.
By investigating how social and military changes have influenced gender ideologies, the author develops an approach that (re)connects military gender ideologies to the social conditions of their production and distribution, and explains their transformation as effects of changing social and political relations and conflicts. Examining the role of different groups of social actors, media debates on womens military participation, and gender ideologies inherent in depictions of military women, the author seeks to contextualize these ideologies within structural change in the US military and society, relating them to the gender-specific division of labor on civilian and military labor markets.
This work provides a deeper understanding of the nexus between military re-structuring processes, womens military integration, and changes of gender ideologies in regard to war and the military, and will be of great interest to students and scholars of gender, security studies, and US politics.
Saskia Stachowitsch is a post-doctorate Researcher in the Department of Politics, University of Vienna, Austria.
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Gender ideologies and military labor markets in the U.S./Saskia
Stachowitsch.
p. cm.(Routledge studies in US foreign policy)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Women and the militaryUnited States. 2. United States Armed ForcesWomen. 3. United StatesArmed Forces Reorganization. 4. Sociology, MilitaryUnited States. I. Title.
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