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The first examination of the interdisciplinary, intersecting fields of gender studies and the history of the United States military, The Routledge History Handbook of Gender, War and the U.S. Military is essential reading for all those interested in how the military has influenced America's views and experiences of gender.
List of contents
Section I: Military Manpower: Gender, Service and Citizenship in American History
- The Shared Language of Gender in Colonial North American Warfare
- Citizen-Soldiers in the Revolutionary Era and New Republic
- Beyond Borders and Combatants: Wars of Empire and Expansion
- Beyond the Brothers’ War: Gender and the American Civil War
- Gee!! I Wish I Were a Man: Gender and the Great War
- "The Women Behind the Men, Behind the Gun": Gendered Identities and Militarization in the Second World War
- Homophobia, Housewives, and Hyper-Masculinity: Gender and American Policymaking in the Nuclear Age, 1947-1963
- Gentle Warriors, Gunslingers, and Girls Next Door: Gender and the Vietnam War
- Transitioning to an All-Volunteer Force
- 9/11, Gender and Wars without End
Section II: Mobilizing Gender in the Service of War
- Gender as a Cause of War
- Gendering the "Enemy" and Gendering the "Ally:" United States Militarized Fictions of War and Peace
- Gender and American Foreign Relations
- Gender and Militarism in U.S. Culture During the Long Twentieth Century
Section III: Gender Sexuality and Military Engagements
- "Patriotism is Neither Masculine nor Feminine:" Gender and the Work of War
- U.S. Military Personnel and Families Abroad: Gender, Sexuality, Race, and Power in the U.S. Military’s Relations with Foreign Nations and Local Inhabitants during Wartime
- "Homos," "Whores," Rapists, and the Clap: American Military Sexuality Since the Revolutionary War
- Rape, Reform, and the Reaction: Gender and Sexual Violence in the U.S. Military
Section IV: Gendered Aftermaths
- To Recognize Those who Served: Gendered Analyses of Veterans’ Policies, Representations, and Experiences
- Best Men, Broken Men: Gender, Disability, and American Veterans
- The Covert and Hidden Memory of Gender
About the author
Kara Dixon Vuic is the LCpl. Benjamin W. Schmidt Professor of War, Conflict, and Society in Twentieth-Century America at Texas Christian University.
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The first examination of the interdisciplinary, intersecting fields of gender studies and the history of the United States military, The Routledge History Handbook of Gender, War and the U.S. Military is essential reading for all those interested in how the military has influenced America's views and experiences of gender.
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"Kara Vuic—one of the very best historians of gender, war, and the U.S. military—has given us a clearly-conceptualized and engaging set of essays which analyze the many ways that gender and war intersect in U.S. history. Perhaps there’s no higher praise than to say that this volume is useful—to scholars, to students, to anyone interested in the history behind our contemporary debates over gender, war, and military service."
Beth Bailey, University of Kansas
"This well-conceived and beautifully executed collection explores the rich scholarship on gender and war and offers fresh perspectives on where we are in answering a number of questions—such as how gender shapes where and why Americans fight, how gender is harnessed to make war, and how new, but more often old, gender orders are reconstructed in war’s aftermath."
Judy Giesberg, Villanova University
