Gender and the Military: Women in the Armed Forces of Western Democracies

by Carreiras; Helena

• ISBN13: 9780415472081
• ISBN10: 0415472083
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2008-06-20
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Women in the military and their relationship with war often provoke controversial reactions that reveal entrenched stereotypes and cultural values central to many societies. This is the first comparative, cross-national study of the participation of women in the armed forces of NATO countries.

Table of Contents

List of figures	p. xi
List of tables	p. xiii
Foreword	p. xv
Acknowledgments	p. xvii
List of abbreviations	p. xix
Introduction	p. 1
Women in the military: a global overview	p. 5
Women and warfare in historical perspective	p. 5
Factors affecting women's military roles	p. 12
Research design and techniques	p. 23
Gender relations, gendered organizations, and the military	p. 25
Social structures and gender regimes	p. 25
Gender relations in organizations	p. 30
The military as a gendered organization	p. 40
Social and political dilemmas of women's military service	p. 55
Women, work, and the family	p. 55
Citizens and soldiers: the political dilemmas of female military service	p. 59
The military institution and social change	p. 72
The military in the post-Cold War period: redefining strategic orientations	p. 72
Organizational challenges and the military profession	p. 75
Military effectiveness and gender integration	p. 86
Gender integration in the armed forces: a cross-national comparison of policies and practices in the NATO countries	p. 97
The position of women in the military: representation and integration policies	p. 98
Explaining gender incorporation patterns: a tentative test of hypotheses	p. 117
Concluding remarks	p. 126
Appendix	p. 128
Portugal and the Netherlands: military and social contexts	p. 137
The military and the challenge of organizational restructuring	p. 137
Patterns and policies of gender integration	p. 148
Social trends and the situation of women	p. 160
Interpersonal dynamics of gender integration: the case of the officer corps	p. 165
Organizational structure and individual orientations	p. 166
Cultural constraints and officers' responses to gender integration	p. 169
Concluding remarks	p. 189
Appendix	p. 192
Conclusion	p. 197
Factors affecting WMP: a synthetic account of empirical results	p. 198
Feminist theories, gender interests, and women's military participation	p. 203
Military organizational change and women's motivations	p. 205
Social change and the future of WMP	p. 206
Notes	p. 209
Bibliography	p. 218
Index	p. 249
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