Regimented Life - An Ethnography of Army Wives

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.

About the author

Dr Alexandra Hyde is Lecturer in Gender Studies at University College London and Visiting Scholar at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her research interests include gender, militarisation and feminist epistemology and her work appeared in a number of key journals.

Summary

Based 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'

Product details

• Authors: Alexandra Hyde, Hyde Alexandra
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781474443920
• ISBN: 978-1-4744-4392-0
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: Advances in Critical Military Studies
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories