Engendering Violent Men: Oral Histories of Military Masculinity

Karner, Tracy X.

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“…The societal myth of military men as heroic and patriotic men who protect society includes that they must be prepared to perform violence against the enemy whether this enemy be man, woman or child. Karner, who has interviewed in depth former Vietnam veterans on their military socialization in order to decode their masculinity construction, states the following (Karner 1998): (He) identifies the completion of basic training socialization as the recruits' acceptance of military reality. By this point, the recruits have come to embody the "siege" mentality and the paranoid position of combat: permanent hypervigilance, reflex obedience, and instant tactical response to any threat, real or imagined.…”

Section: Factors Contributing To Health Problems Of Women and Girls Dmentioning

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War, women and health

Arcel¹,

Kastrup²

2004

NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research

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Wars increasingly target civilian populations and cause severe health problems in those targeted. It also creates a militarization and masculinization of society and exacerbates discrimination against women, for example by intensifying women's exclusion from the public sphere and rendering access to health services more difficult. Sexual violence is a clear example hereof and may take many forms, for example as rape, sexual mutilation, forced abortion, or forced prostitution. The vulnerability of women is related to their social situation as single providers, to their dwelling in refugee camps etc., and their personal security in unsafe settings. All may contribute to an increased risk of abuse with deleterious consequences for their physical and psychological state of health. Physically, this includes complaints of the musculo-skeletal system, reproductive organs as well as chronic pain conditions. The prevailing psychological manifestations include anxiety, depression, cognitive dysfunction, insomnia and lack of energy. The need for the implementation of international human rights laws is pertinent and provision for protection of the health of women should be guaranteed, including the urgent need for adequate and culturally sensitive care for such women.

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Section: Factors Contributing To Health Problems Of Women and Girls Dmentioning

confidence: 98%

War, women and health

Arcel¹,

Kastrup²

2004

NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research

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“…Our analysis, which looks at the construction of masculinity before college, in the military, after military service but before entering the workforce and in the workforce gives us a much more holistic picture than that presented in the literature. The extant literature on hegemonic or military masculinity has focused on either inside or outside of the military (e.g., Abraham et al, ; Hale, ; Sasson‐Levy, ), or has focused on military masculinity as it regards PTSD (Karner, ). Hegemonic masculinity affects workplaces (Iacuone, ; Mumby, ) and our study adds depth to the extant literature as it looks how it is formed and enacted across contexts.…”

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Warriors in suits: A Bourdieusian perspective on the construction and practice of military masculinity of Korean men

Lee¹,

Shirmohammadi²,

Baumgartner³

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Gender Work & Organization

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Within masculinity scholarship, there is a gap about how masculinity carries over from a broad social context to an organizational context. This article explores the construction and capitalization of masculinity through a series of experiences in social fields such as the military and college, and the transfer of militaristic masculinity into the workplace. Drawing on grounded theory methods, we conducted in‐depth interviews with 20 Korean men who completed their mandatory two‐year military service and subsequently joined large corporations in Korea. We uncovered a four‐phase model that depicts how Korean men's masculinity is constructed during military service and transferred to their organizational positions characterizing them as warriors in suits. Informed by a Bourdieusian perspective, this study shows how masculinities are constructed, reinforced and legitimatized by the structural influences of society, and how masculinity becomes the desired image of men at work, which perpetuates the gender and power gaps among organizational members.

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“…They also tend to overlook the relational nature of masculinity and femininity organized around military service, focusing on either masculinity or femininity but not both (Cohn and Enloe 2003). Some of these studies focus on individual and collective experiences of actual military life and combat (Rosen, Knudson, and Fancher 2003;Ben-Ari 1998;Karner 1998;Cameron 1994;Arkin and Dobrofsky 1978), and others use such cultural texts as films, novels, memoirs, and public rituals to analyze the representation of militarized masculinity (Dawson 1991(Dawson , 1994Donald 1992;Mosse 1990). In line with critical studies of masculinity called for by Michael Kimmel and Michael Messner (1992), recent studies of militarized masculinity examine its differences and variations.…”

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Trouble with Conscription, Entertaining Soldiers

Moon

2005

Men and Masculinities

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Gender and military studies focus on Western postconscription societies, overlooking the significance of military service to gender order in the larger society. Concerned with the military's changing form in industrial and democratic society, military sociology literature argues for the broad trend toward the decline of the conscription-based military and highlights not only economic factors but also geopolitical factors influencing this trend. Yet this literature overlooks the significance of gender in interpreting such geopolitical factors. Focusing on the problem of equity in conscription in contemporary South Korea and on one popular cultural response to that problem, this article examines the importance of men's conscription to the organization of meanings and practices of masculinity (and femininity) in larger society and argues that the geopolitical reality in Korea that justifies militarized national security and the existence of conscription is embedded in the gendered interpretation of what is being threatened and to be protected.

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Engendering Violent Men: Oral Histories of Military Masculinity

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War, women and health

War, women and health

Warriors in suits: A Bourdieusian perspective on the construction and practice of military masculinity of Korean men

Trouble with Conscription, Entertaining Soldiers

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