Domestic Abuse and the Reproduction of the Idealised ‘Military Wife’

Gray, Harriet

doi:10.1057/978-1-137-51677-0_14

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“…Furthermore, this article contributes to previous research which has explored how the military relies upon partners' labor in order to deploy as they adopt primary childcare responsibilities, domestic labor, and supporting their serving partner to reintegrate postdeployment (e.g., Gray, 2017;Harrison & Laliberté, 1993;Hyde, 2016;Norris, 2001). Through highlighting army partners' experiences of doing deployments, this article considers how they adapt practice to better manage and cope with challenges.…”

Section: Deployment and Liminal Spatiotemporalitiesmentioning

confidence: 93%

“…Through highlighting army partners' experiences of doing deployments, this article considers how they adapt practice to better manage and cope with challenges. These adaptations and evolving practices may be suggestive of gendered ideals where one's labor is held accountable to militarized values oriented toward maintaining operational effectiveness (Enloe, 2000;Gray, 2016Gray, , 2017. This research develops the concept of liminality and how adaptation practices continuously evolve in pursuit of becoming the "ideal" while anticipating future unknowns.…”

Section: Deployment and Liminal Spatiotemporalitiesmentioning

confidence: 93%

“…Gendered ideals hold military partners accountable to expectations of their militarized role. The "ideal/good/model" military partner performs this labor, exhibiting militarized values of stoicism and resilience, to support their serving partner and military objectives (Enloe, 2000;Gray, 2017;Harrison & Laliberté, 1993). Contradicting these ideals can be met with derision from the community as Gray (2017, p. 233) illustrates " .…”

Section: Military Partner Roles and Identitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…They learn from their and other's past experiences. They continually adapt strategies for managing the effect of separation on their family and could be considered in a liminal space where they are in pursuit of becoming ideal (e.g., Gray, 2017).…”

Section: Interpreting Previous Deployments and Separationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Living Liminal Lives: Army Partners’ Spatiotemporal Experiences of Deployment

Long

2021

Armed Forces & Society

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The emotional cycle of deployment theorized by Logan and adapted by Pincus, House, Christenson, and Alder is often applied by academics and military support agencies to define, explain, and provide advice on the experiences and possible emotional reactions of military families during phases of deployment. Interviews with army partners showed that spatiotemporal experiences and perspectives are more complex than those afforded by the emotional cycle of deployment. This article argues that applying the concept of liminality uncovers some of this complexity, illuminating the in-between times experienced during deployments that are otherwise hidden. Army partners move through and between deployments and deployment phases haunted by specters of past and future deployments. By disrupting seemingly chronological and discrete spatiotemporal narratives, which often frame research on military families and deployment, this article demonstrates how army partners move through and between deployments and deployment stages negotiating past and future deployments. It shows how they continuously adapt and evolve practices while negotiating interpreted pasts and imagined futures in pursuit of becoming “ideal.”

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Section: Deployment and Liminal Spatiotemporalitiesmentioning

confidence: 93%

Section: Deployment and Liminal Spatiotemporalitiesmentioning

confidence: 93%

Section: Military Partner Roles and Identitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Interpreting Previous Deployments and Separationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Living Liminal Lives: Army Partners’ Spatiotemporal Experiences of Deployment

Long

2021

Armed Forces & Society

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“…They have argued that the institution of marriage and the unpaid support labor of military wives in particular are central to the functioning and international operations of militaries (Enloe 1989(Enloe , 2000Gray 2016). Harrison and Laliberté (1994) and more recently Gray (2016Gray ( , 2017, Hyde (2016) and Basham and Catignani (2018) have documented the gendered division of labor within military families, and the expectations for women to take on primary responsibility for domestic labor, sacrifice their own careers, and volunteer time for the military. Militaries have been paying increased attention to military spouses in order to ensure their loyalty in support of military readiness (Horn 2009).…”

Section: Theoretical Context: Feminist Scholarship On Militarism and mentioning

confidence: 99%

Reproductions of global security: accounting for the private security household

Chisholm

Eichler

2018

International Feminist Journal of Politics

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This article shows how private security households exist at the nexus of two foundational logics of contemporary warfare-militarism and neoliberalism. The celebration of neoliberalism and normalization of militarism allow the private security industry to draw upon the labor of eager contractors and their supportive spouses. This article develops a feminist analysis of the role of the private security household in global security assemblages. In what ways are households connected to the outsourcing of security work to Private Military and Security Companies (PMSCs), and how are these connections gendered? Through interviews with female spouses of former UK Special Air Services soldiers, now private security contractors, we demonstrate how the household is both silenced and yet indispensable to how PMSCs operate and how liberal states conduct war. These spouses supported the transition from military service to private security work, managed the household, and planned their careers or sacrificed them to accommodate their husband's security work. Their gendered labor was conditioned by former military life but animated by neoliberal market logics. For the most part, the women we interviewed normalized the militarized values of their husband's work and celebrated the freedom and financial rewards this type of security work brought.

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