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:	9781137516770
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date:	06/27/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	512
File size:	4 MB

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

Rachel Woodward and Claire Duncanson

 

Part 1    Conceptual approaches

·         Liberal feminist approaches – Caroline Kennedy-Pipe (University of Hull) or Laura M. Miller (RAND, Washington DC)

·         Radical and anti-militarism feminism – Cynthia Cockburn (independent scholar, UK) or Cynthia Enloe (Clark University) or Claire Duncanson (University of Edinburgh)

·         Institutional approaches – Marina Nuciari (University of Turin and Italian Defence Academy)

·         Organisational sociological approaches – Helena Carreriras (University Institute of Lisbon) or Christopher Dandeker (Kings College London)

·         Critical military studies and gender – Victoria Basham (University of Exeter) or Aaron Belkin (Palm Center, San Francisco)

·         Intersections of gender and sexuality – Melissa Embser-Herbert (University of New Brunswick)

·         Narrative approaches to gender and militarised security - Annick Wibben, University of San Francisco

 

Part 2    Exploring state militaries

·         Sexualities in the British armed forces – Sarah Bulmer (University of Exeter)

·         Intimate partner abuse in military households – Harriet Gray (London School of Economics)

·         Civilian wives of British military personnel based overseas – Alex Hyde (London School of Economics)

·         Military identities amongst deserters from the Zimbabwean armed forces – Godfrey Maringara (University of the Western Cape, South Africa)

·         War resistance in apartheid South Africa – Daniel Conway (Loughborough University)

·         The recruitment of women in the transition of the Swedish armed forces from conscription to an all-volunteer force – Emma Jonsson (Swedish National Defence College)

·         Transgender personnel in the US military – Aaron Belkin (Palm Centre, San Fransisco State University)

·         Military masculinities in the Norwegian defence forces – Nina Rones (Norwegian Defence University College and Norwegian School of Sport Sciences)

·         Gender  and the recruitment of Commonwealth personnel in the UK – Vron Ware (University of Kingston)

·         Gender and gender-based violence in the Australian defence forces – Ben Wadham (Finders University)

·         Gender and mental health amongst military personnel – Charlotte Woodhead et al (Kings College London)

·         The Falklands War and its aftermath for veterans and their families – Helen Parr (University of Keele)

·         Gender, masculinities and conscientious objection in the Second World War – Wendy Ugolini (University of Edinburgh) or Temperate masculinities in the Second World War – Sonya Rose (University of Warwick)

 

 

 

Part 3    State militaries in action

·         Gender integration in the Bundeswehr – Gerhard Kümmel (SOWI – Bundeswehr Research Institute, Germany)

·         Gender and peacekeeping - Marsha Henry ( London School of Economics)

·         Gender, military forces and humanitarian interventions – Ryerson Christie, (University of Bristol)

·         Counterinsurgency operations in Afghanistan and gender – Synne Dyvik (University of Sussex)

·         The intersection of ethnic and gendered identities in the Israeli defence forces – Orna Sasson-Levy (Bar-Ilan University)

·         Cohesion and gender in armed forces – Anthony King (University of Exeter)

·         Gender and military outsourcing – Saskia Stachowitsch (University of Vienna)

·         Gender and the transition in South Africa from SADF to SANDR - Lindy Heineken, (Stellenbosch University)

 

Part 4    Non-state militaries and supra national organisations:

·         Women and terrorist movements – Katherine Brown (Kings College London)

·         Gender and identity amongst private military security contractors – Paul Higate (University of Bristol)

·         Intersections of gendered and racialized identities in third country security contractors from the global south – Amanda Chisholm (Newcastle University)

·         Women in paramilitary organisations – Maria Power (University of Liverpool)

·         Women and girl soldiers in Sierra Leone – Megan Mackenzie (University of Sydney) or Chris Coulter (Stockholm University)

·         Icelandic peacekeepers in international deployments - Helga Björnsdóttir (University of Iceland)

 

Part 5    Representations

·         Visual representations of women soldiers  in Israel – Chava Brownfield-Stein (Bar-Ilan University)

·         Gender, cadets the militarisation of childhood - Victoria Basham (University of Exeter)

·         The gendering of military memoirs – Claire Duncanson and Rachel Woodward (University of Edinburgh, Newcastle University)

·         Representations of military bodies in the 20^th century – Ana Carden Coyne (University of Manchester)

·         Medals, heroism and military masculinities – Jenny Mathers (Aberystwyth University)

·         Gender, militaries and war film – Yvonne Tasker (University of East Anglia) or Mathew Evangalista (Cornell) or Cynthia Weber (University of Sussex)

·         The mediatisation of child soldiers in literary fiction and film – Catarina Martins (University of Coimbra) or Beth Karlin and Richard Mathew (University of California, Irvine). 

·         Gendered representations of soldier deaths in the USA – Katharine Millar (University of Oxford).