The Palgrave International Handbook of Gender and the Military

by Rachel Woodward (Editor), Claire Duncanson (Editor)

Overview

The Palgrave International Handbook of Gender and the Military provides a comprehensive overview of the multiple ways in which gender and militaries connect. International and multi-disciplinary in scope, this edited volume provides authoritative accounts of the many intersections through which militaries issues and military forces are shaped by gender. The chapters provide detailed accounts of key issues, informed by examples from original research in a wealth of different national contexts. This Handbook includes coverage of conceptual approaches to the study of gender and militaries, gender and the organisation of state military forces, gender as it pertains to military forces in action, transitions and transgressions within militaries, gender and non-state military forces, and gender in representations of military personnel and practices. With contributions from a range of both established and early career scholars, The Palgrave International Handbook of Gender and the Military is an essential guide to current debates on gender and contemporary military issues.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137516763
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	06/27/2017
Edition description:	1st ed. 2017
Pages:	580
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Rachel Woodward is Professor of Human Geography in the School of Geography, Politics & Sociology, Newcastle University, UK. She is co-editor of the Routledge Companion to Military Research Methods (2016), co-author with Trish Winter of Sexing the Soldier (Routledge, 2007) and author of Military Geographies (Blackwell, 2004).

Claire Duncanson is a Senior Lecturer in International Relations in the School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh, UK. She is author of Gender and Peacebuilding (Polity 2016) and Forces for Good? Military Masculinities in Afghanistan and Iraq (Palgrave Macmillan 2013).

Table of Contents

Introduction: Gender and the Military.- Part 1 Conceptual approaches.- Liberal feminist approaches .-Radical and anti-militarism feminism .-Institutional approaches .-Organisational sociological approaches .-Critical military studies and gender .-Intersections of gender and sexuality .-Narrative approaches to gender and militarised security .- Part 2 Exploring state militaries .- Sexualities in the British armed forces .-Intimate partner abuse in military households .-Civilian wives of British military personnel based overseas.-Military identities amongst deserters from the Zimbabwean armed forces .-War resistance in apartheid South Africa .-The recruitment of women in the transition of the Swedish armed forces from conscription to an all-volunteer force .-Transgender personnel in the US military.-Military masculinities in the Norwegian defence forces.- Gender and the recruitment of Commonwealth personnel in the UK .- Gender and gender-based violence in the Australian defence forces.- Gender and mental health amongst military personnel .- The Falklands War and its aftermath for veterans and their families.- Gender, masculinities and conscientious objection in the Second World War.- Part 3 State militaries in action .- Gender integration in the Bundeswehr.- Gender and peacekeeping .- Gender, military forces and humanitarian interventions .- Counterinsurgency operations in Afghanistan and gender .- The intersection of ethnic and gendered identities in the Israeli defence forces.- Cohesion and gender in armed forces .- Gender and military outsourcing .- Gender and the transition in South Africa from SADF to SANDR .- Part 4 Non-state militaries and supra national organisations.- Women and terrorist movements .- Gender and identity amongst private military security contractors .- Intersections of gendered and racialized identities in third country security contractors from the global south .- Women in paramilitary organisations .- Women and girl soldiers in Sierra Leone.- Icelandic peacekeepers in international deployments .- Part 5 Representations.- Visual representations of women soldiers in Israel .- Gender, cadets the militarisation of childhood.- The gendering of military memoirs.- Representations of military bodies in the 20^th century.- Medals, heroism and military masculinities .- Gender, militaries and war film.- The mediatisation of child soldiers in literary fiction and film.- Gendered representations of soldier deaths in the USA.