Sexing the Soldier - The Politics of Gender and the Contemporary British Army

Informationen zum Autor Rachel Woodward is Reader in Critical Geography at Newcastle University. She is the author of Military Geographies (2004) and of numerous scholarly articles on military geographical and sociological issues. Trish Winter is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Sunderland. She is the author of a number of articles on military representation and gender issues in the Armed Forces. Klappentext Sexing the Soldier takes a critical look at how gender - what it means to be a man or a woman - is understood within the contemporary British Army, and the political and practical consequences of this. Drawing on original research, this informaive volume looks at: the history and structure of the British Army as a masculine institution personnel policies which deal with gender issues the construction of ideas about military masculinities and femininities within the Army media representations of the figure of the soldier. Using case studies ranging from the exclusion of women from direct combat posts, to the issues surrounding bullying, this book argues that we need a fuller, more nuanced assessment of gender issues in the military that moves beyond the simplistic ideas about women's and men's 'natural' capacities for soldiering. Zusammenfassung Sexing the Soldier takes a critical look at how gender is understood within the contemporary British Army. Drawing on original research, this book argues that dominant ideas about gender, evident in areas as diverse as policy documents and cultural practices, potentially limit rather than enhance operational effectiveness. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Gender and the British Army: Military, Civilian and Conceptual Issues 2. Patterns and Histories of Gender in the British Army 3. British Army Personnel Policies and the Politics of Female Difference 4. Masculinities and the British Army 5. Gender and the Soldier in the British Media and Popular Culture 6. The Politics of Gender and the Contemporary British Army ...

Product details

• Authors: Trish Winter, Winter Trish, Ms Rachel Winter Woodward, Rachel Woodward, Rachel (University of Newcastle Woodward, Rachel Winter Woodward
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.07.2007
• EAN: 9780415392556
• ISBN: 978-0-415-39255-6
• No. of pages: 156
• Series: Transformations; Transformations: Thinking Thro; Transformations
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; History, Media Studies, Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, Politics & government, Warfare & defence, Humanities, Feminism & feminist theory, Politics and government, Gender studies, gender groups, Warfare and defence, Feminism and feminist theory