Regimented Life : An Ethnography of Army Wives / Alexandra Hyde.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hyde, Alexandra, author.

Series:

Advances in critical military studies.

Advances in Critical Military Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Army spouses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (248 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press Ltd, [2024]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Explores a new understanding of gender, agency and military power through the lived experiences of army wives Based on unprecedented ethnographic access to a British Army regiment as a unit of social and cultural belonging Conducted from the perspective of those occupying a complex but frequently over-simplified position in relation to military cohesion, war and militarisation Contributes a critical and nuanced empirical discussion to debates on militarisation as a conceptual framework for analysis of the everyday operation of military power Provides a feminist analysis of gendered agency and its ambiguities Critically engages with the reliance of military-institutional power on heteronormativity simultaneously embedded in hierarchies of rank, class and raceBased on unprecedented ethnographic access to a regimental community in Germany during a period of deployment to Afghanistan, this analysis of the ambiguities of gendered agency focuses not on the front-line experience of soldiers, but on that of the wives 'left behind'. Alexandra Hyde explores the mobile and contradictory position of civilian women as they navigate British Army culture and its reified production of social belonging. The book considers wives' exposure to - and implication in - processes of militarisation and, ultimately, war and state-sanctioned violence as they 'live with' rather than 'serve in' the military.Chapters explore multiple circuits of mobility and migration; women's productive and reproductive labour; rank and its relationship to class and ethnicity; and women's pre-emptive management of grief and human vulnerability. What emerges is a critical, feminist exploration of the composite relations of gender, class, sexuality and nation that combine to make and remake military power.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Follow the Cake Stall

Interstitial I: Bicycle

1. Military Mobilities

Interstitial II: Dining Out

2. Ranking Difference and Distinction

Interstitial III: Female in Shower and Other Signs

3. Regimented Life

Interstitial IV: Shock-the-Civilian Stories

Conclusion: The cotton wool effect?

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Jan 2024)

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4744-4395-8

1-4744-4394-X

OCLC:

1416153679