Gender Ideologies and Military Labor Markets in the U.S.

Stachowitsch, Saskia

doi:10.4324/9780203804681

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“…While military gender ideologies were to some degree modernized and rationalized in regard to the regular forces (Stachowitsch 2012), the world of privatized military security draws upon more traditional notions of aggressive and war-prone masculinity. PMCs represent themselves as the efficient, assertive, masculine counterpart to the inefficient, democratic and gender-integrated state military.…”

Section: Gendered Implications Of Military Privatization: An Agenda Fmentioning

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Professional Soldier, Weak Victim, Patriotic Heroine

Stachowitsch¹

2013

International Feminist Journal of Politics

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Section: Gendered Implications Of Military Privatization: An Agenda Fmentioning

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Professional Soldier, Weak Victim, Patriotic Heroine

Stachowitsch¹

2013

International Feminist Journal of Politics

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“…Over the past decades, the shift from conscription to all-volunteer forces, together with advocacy for women’s equal access to military jobs, has helped open Western militaries to women (Obradovic, 2014). In the United States, for example, the percentage of soldiers who are female increased from under 2% in the early 1970s to 15% today (Eager, 2014; Stachowitsch, 2011). A growing number of countries—such as Australia and the United States, most recently—have lifted the ban on women serving in direct combat.…”

Section: Historical and Theoretical Contexts: Why Gender Mattersmentioning

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Add Female Veterans and Stir? A Feminist Perspective on Gendering Veterans Research

Eichler

2016

Armed Forces & Society

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This article examines how scholarship on veterans has begun to incorporate gender as a relevant category of research. Drawing on feminist theory, it identifies different approaches to gender within the field of veterans studies and suggests avenues for advancing this aspect of research. The vast majority of gender research on veterans treats gender as a descriptive category or variable through a focus on female veterans or gender differences. This article argues that research on veterans can be enriched by employing gender as an analytical category. Focusing on gender norms, power and inequality based on gender, and the intersections of gender with other categories of social difference opens up new questions for gender research on veterans. This kind of broader, analytical conceptualization of gender reveals the ways in which gender shapes the transition to civilian life for all veterans and how veterans policies and programs impact gender relations.

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“…In this sense, discourses critical of private security resemble debates on women's military integration, in which contra-arguments often deny women the ability to represent the nation. The employed prejudice is similar to that against the private contractor: Both are portrayed as unpatriotic, career-and money-oriented agents of professionalized, ''unheroic'' warfare (Stachowitsch 2012). Criticism of military privatization and opposition to gender integration thus both idealize masculinity associated with the males-only state military.…”

Section: The Hypermasculine Contractor In Critical Discoursesmentioning

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The Reconstruction of Masculinities in Global Politics

Stachowitsch

2014

Men and Masculinities

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The concept of masculinities has been central to the analysis of private security as a gendered phenomenon. This research has either focused on the identity constructions and practices of security contractors as men or on masculinity as a theoretical and ideological framework for making sense of security outsourcing. This article aims to overcome this dualism by developing a relational, strategic, and discursive understanding of masculinities and focusing on the gendering strategies that create them. These strategies are identified as masculinization of the market and feminization of the state, feminization and racialization of (some) security work, hypermasculinization as a critical or affirmative discourse, romanticizing the autonomous male bond, and militarization of private security. It is argued that private security as well as critical discourses on it integrate business, humanitarian, and militarized masculinities in a way that ultimately legitimizes masculinism and reconstructs masculinity as a privileged category in international politics.

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Gender Ideologies and Military Labor Markets in the U.S.

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Professional Soldier, Weak Victim, Patriotic Heroine

Professional Soldier, Weak Victim, Patriotic Heroine

Add Female Veterans and Stir? A Feminist Perspective on Gendering Veterans Research

The Reconstruction of Masculinities in Global Politics

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