The Sexual Economy of War : Discipline and Desire in the U.S. Army / Andrew Byers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Byers, Andrew, Author.

Series:

Battlegrounds. Cornell studies in military history.

Cornell scholarship online.

Battlegrounds: Cornell Studies in Military History

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Army--History--20th century.

United States.

War and society--United States--History--20th century.

War and society.

Military discipline--United States--History--20th century.

Military discipline.

Soldiers--Sexual behavior--United States--History--20th century.

Soldiers.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (291 pages).

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

In The Sexual Economy of War, Andrew Byers argues that in the early twentieth century, concerns about unregulated sexuality affected every aspect of how the US Army conducted military operations. Far from being an exercise marginal to the institution and its scope of operations, governing sexuality was, in fact, integral to the military experience during a time of two global conflicts and numerous other army deployments.In this revealing study, Byers shows that none of the issues related to current debates about gender, sex, and the military-the inclusion of LGBTQ soldiers, sexual harassment and violence, the integration of women-is new at all. Framing the American story within an international context, he looks at case studies from the continental United States, Hawaii, the Philippines, France, and Germany. Drawing on internal army policy documents, soldiers' personal papers, and disciplinary records used in criminal investigations, The Sexual Economy of War illuminates how the US Army used official policy, legal enforcement, indoctrination, and military culture to govern wayward sexual behaviors. Such regulation, and its active opposition, leads Byers to conclude that the tension between organizational control and individual agency has deep and tangled historical roots.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction. Society, Sexuality, and the U.S. Army in the Early Twentieth Century

Chapter 1. "Conduct of a Nature to Bring Discredit upon the Military Service" Fort Riley, Kansas, 1898-1940

Chapter 2. "Benevolent Assimilation" and the Dangers of the Tropics. The American Occupation of the Philippines, 1898-1918

Chapter 3. "Come Back Clean". Camp Beauregard and the Commission on Training Camp Activities in Louisiana, 1917-1919

Chapter 4. "Complete Continence Is Wholly Possible" . The U.S. Army in France and Germany, 1917-1923

Chapter 5. The "Racial (and Sexual) Maelstrom" in Hawaii, 1909-1940

Conclusion. Ongoing Concerns with Soldiers' Sexualities and Sexual Cultures

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2019.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Feb 2020)

ISBN:

9781501736452

1501736450

OCLC:

1050141894