Women and the military in Europe : comparing public cultures / Iréne Eulriet.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eulriet, Irène, 1975-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women and the military.

Women soldiers.

Armed Forces.

Europe--Armed Forces--Women.

Europe.

Women soldiers--Europe.

Women and the military--Europe.

Physical Description:

viii, 173 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

Summary:

Although the participation of women in the military has been the subject of attention in the social sciences since the 1970s, there has been no specific focus on this issue within the context of the European Union. The aim of this book is to redress this imbalance. Exploring the policies adopted in the United Kingdom, Germany and France over the past 20 years, it situates them in the unique context of the European Union. Through a survey of the political and legal dimensions of the wider recruitment of women into a professional milieu that has long remained a male stronghold, Iréne Eulriet traces variations between the three countries back to differences in their public cultures. In doing so, she exposes the complex frameworks within which national military institutions operate and shows, on the basis of her European findings, that patterns of women's military participation vary in shape and content beyond what is commonly assumed. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Women in the Military-Dominant Approaches 10

1 The civil-military divide 11

2 The public-private divide 18

2 Europe-A Liberal Space 29

1 European law and policy 30

2 European public cultures 41

3 The United Kingdom-Preserving Effectiveness 52

1 Market demands versus effectiveness 54

2 Effectiveness, emotion and male combat 61

4 Germany-Safeguarding the Family 70

1 Duty and opportunities in the military 71

2 Female care work as a social imperative 77

5 France-Achieving Equality 85

1 From quotas to equality 86

2 Towards a state of in-distinction 92.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9780230206892

0230206891

OCLC:

766300351

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