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Drawing on surveys and interviews with almost 300 female military personnel, Melissa Herbert explores how women's everyday actions, such as choice of uniform, hobby, or social activity, involve the creation and re-creation of what it means to be a woman, and particularly a woman soldier. Do women feel pressured to be "more masculine," to convey that they are not a threat to men's jobs or status and to avoid being perceived as lesbians? She also examines the role of gender and sexuality in the maintenance of the male-defined military institution, proposing that, more than sexual harassment or individual discrimination, it is the military's masculine ideology--which views military service as the domain of men and as a mechanism for the achievement of manhood--which serves to limit women's participation in the military has increased dramatically. In the wake of armed conflict involving female military personnel and several sexual misconduct scandals, much attention has focused on what life is like for women in the armed services. Few, however, have examined how these women negotiate an environment that has been structured and defined as masculine

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This research and policy book examines the role of women in the military and the overwhelming evidence to date that warranted repealing the combat exclusion policy. It explores the following questions: How can the success of women in the military serve as justification for its repeal? What will be the potential impact of repealing the policy on the recruitment, promotion and retention of women in the military?How will repealing the combat exclusion policy change the ways in which military men relate to military women? How can repealing the policy set women on the course toward full agency and.

This research and policy book examines the role of women in the military and the overwhelming evidence to date that warranted repealing the combat exclusion policy. It explores the following questions: How can the success of women in the military serve as justification for its repeal? What will be the potential impact of repealing the policy on the recruitment, promotion and retention of women in the military?How will repealing the combat exclusion policy change the ways in which military men relate to military women? How can repealing the policy set women on the course toward full agency and.

The current U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) policy for assigning military women was issued in 1994, and the U.S. Army's assignment policy dates to 1992. In the ensuing years, the U.S. Army has undergone significant technological and organizational transformation, which has changed how it organizes and fights. There is concern that, in the course of operations in Iraq, the Army has not been adhering to its own assignment policy, as there are several important and potentially problematic differences between the DoD and Army policies. For example, the DoD policy prohibits the assignment of women

Foreword / Helena Carreiras & Gerhard K(c)ơmmel -- Women in combat: reconsidering the case against the deployment of women in combat-support and combat units / Stephan Maninger -- Off limits: the cults of the body and social homogeneity as discoursive weapons targeting gender integration in the military / Helena Carreiras & Gerhard K(c)ơmmel -- Unsung heroes: women's contributions in the military and why their song goes unsung / Irene Jung Fiala -- About intervening in vulnerable societies: gender in military peacekeeping of the Bundeswehr / Cordula Dittmer & Maja Apelt -- Women in the Netherlands armed forces / Ren(c)♭ Moelker & Jolanda Bosch -- Defying the prohibited arena: women in the UAE military / Suaad Zayed Al-Oraimi -- From loyalty to dissent: how military women respond to integration dilemmas / Helena Carreiras -- Chivalry in the military / Gerhard K(c)ơmmel -- The militarization of gender and sexuality in the Iraq war / Lindsey Feitz & Joane Nagel -- Violence against women in conflict zones / Ceyda Kuloglu

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Ukraine: Defending the Motherland -- 2 The Kurdish Regions: Fighting as Kurds, Fighting as Women -- 3 Colombia: Women Waging War and Peace -- Conclusions and Implications -- About the Authors