Gender ideologies and military labor markets in the U.S. / Saskia Stachowitsch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stachowitsch, Saskia.

Series:

Routledge studies in US foreign policy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women and the military--United States.

Women and the military.

United States--Armed Forces--Women.

United States.

Armed Forces.

United States--Armed Forces--Reorganization.

Sociology, Military--United States.

Sociology, Military.

Physical Description:

vi, 151 pages ; 18 cm.

Place of Publication:

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2011.

Summary:

Stachowitsch (politics, U. of Vienna, Austria) delves into the gender ideologies underlying the different images of military women and perceptions of femininity and masculinity that have been used in the US media to argue for or against the integration of women into the military. This entails examining the structural transformations in the US military and society over the past few decades, she says, and relating shifts in gender ideologies to the gender-specific division of labor on civilian and military labor markets. She covers relations between the material and the cultural; gender, state, and the military; and military gender ideologies in the media. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780415667074

0415667070

9780203804681

0203804686

OCLC:

703209000