Professional Soldier, Weak Victim, Patriotic Heroine

Stachowitsch, Saskia

doi:10.1080/14616742.2012.699785

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“…An alternative view is more sceptical of the claim that participation in militaries can enhance women’s equality or citizenship. Anti-militarist feminists suggest that an increase in women’s military participation does not represent progress for women or for a more peaceful international order (Cockburn, 2007; Enloe, 2007; Eisenstein, 2007; Peterson and Runyan, 2010; Stachowitsch, 2013). First, these feminists argue that rather than military participation furthering women’s equality, women are never fully equal in the military.…”

Section: Feminist Debates On Women’s Military Participationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…While militaries may use the language of women’s rights and equal opportunities to fill the ranks, anti-militarist feminists contend that women are being duped, given the absence of full institutional commitment to progressive gender change (Enloe, 1983, 2007; Stachowitsch, 2013). Women’s influence is thus better wielded through political rather than military intervention and through challenging conditions of female inequality (Jones, 1984).…”

Section: Feminist Debates On Women’s Military Participationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Regendering the military: Theorizing women’s military participation

2015

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Regendering the Military; theorising women's military participation. Abstract Abstract: This paper considers how, in the light of contemporary military transformations, feminist theorizing about women's military participation might be developed to take account of an emergent reality: the inclusion of increasing numbers of women in a range of roles within armed forces. A brief overview of established debates within feminist scholarship on women's military participation is provided, and we explore the trajectory of feminist strategies for change both within militaries and other institutions. The promise and limitations of UNSCR 1325 are discussed. The paper argues that existing feminist critiques often remain deterministic, and have too readily dismissed the possibilities for change created by women's participation, given the context of military transformations. Drawing on the idea of the regendered military, the paper presents a conceptual strategy for considering how feminist theorizing about the gender-military nexus can take seriously women's military participation whilst remaining alert to feminist political goals of gender equality, peace and justice.

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Section: Feminist Debates On Women’s Military Participationmentioning

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Section: Feminist Debates On Women’s Military Participationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Regendering the military: Theorizing women’s military participation

2015

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“…The military is a principal institution in advanced liberal democracies. Beyond its material power, its presence is implicated in the brokering of particular national identities that propagate particular gendered and racialized divisions of labour (Stachowitsch, 2013). Subsequently, the responses of ruling elites to military misconduct represent particular standpoints on principal militarized discourses, such as women's ability to serve in all military roles, why misconduct occurs, or how culture and cultural change are conceived.…”

Section: The Making Of the Military Scandal: Gender Violence Militarymentioning

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The minister, the Commandant and the cadets: Scandal and the mediation of Australian civil–military relations

Wadham

2016

Journal of Sociology

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The Australian Defence Force (ADF) has recently undergone the most comprehensive review of its organizational culture since federation. Western militaries across the USA, Canada and the UK are similarly engaged. Military misconduct, including rape, assault and the long traditions of hazing and bastardization, have been increasingly exposed, engaging civil society, agitating government and undermining military integrity. The Skype Affair is described as a particularly important military misconduct scandal that brought these relations, and ruling relations more specifically, into focus. The article describes the contest over democratic control of the armed forces initiated when the jurisdictions and authority of the Defence Minister, the Chief of Defence and the Commandant of the Australian Defence Force Academy (ADFA) converged over the management of this military scandal. This article looks at how relations between Australian civil society, the military and the state are affected by the varying engagements of these sectors with the question of violence in the military and, subsequently, military modernization. The news-mediated discourse is one that highlights the structural split of civilmilitary relations, between two white masculinized institutions in a context of distinct cultural divergence over the rule of nation.

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“…Military sociology, for its part, has tracked the arguments for the greater integration of women service personnel in differing national Global Discourse 251 contexts by outlining a ʽtheory of the variables that affect the degrees and nature of women's participation' (Segal 1995, 758). Whilst the need for personnel (a military variable) has arguably been the driving force behind expansion of women's military roles (Nuciari 2003), other variables associated with 'social structure' and 'culture' have been increasingly important in subsequent research which has explored the social construction of gender in the military (Archer 2013;Baaz and Stern 2013;Chapman 1999;Evans 2013;Kümmell 2002;Sasson-Levy 2003;Stachowitsch 2013). Gender is clearly an issue for recruitment and influences, in a basic sense, the division of the recruit pool according to sex (Woodward and Winter 2007).…”

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Recruitment, counter-recruitment and critical military studies

Rech

2014

Global Discourse

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Despite constituting the formal mechanism by which states and militaries persuade and enrol their personnel, military recruitment is poorly understood in the social and political sciences. Tied either to a normative and partisan sociology which aims to provide applied solutions for recruitment and retention programmes, or subsumed under a broad banner, by critical scholars, of a global 'cultural condition' of militarisation, studies of recruitment lack the rigour they should be afforded. In exploring these issues, the paper offers a vision of critical military studies which takes seriously the efforts of counter-military recruiting activist and protest movements in the US and UK. Counter-recruitment activism is billed as the most practical way to resist policies of militarism and militarisation. In promoting locally situated, practical solutions to the effects of militarised cultures (often as part of activism in schools), it aims to expose the relationship between, and acts to correct, both local and global injustices. In reviewing the practical and conceptual basis for counter-recruiting strategies, and speaking to broader movements in feminist scholarship on militarisation, the paper demonstrates the importance of critical studies of military recruitment, and in so doing, argues for a critical military studies which is situated amidst the people and places militarism affects.

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Professional Soldier, Weak Victim, Patriotic Heroine

Cited by 20 publications

References 22 publications

Regendering the military: Theorizing women’s military participation

Regendering the military: Theorizing women’s military participation

The minister, the Commandant and the cadets: Scandal and the mediation of Australian civil–military relations

Recruitment, counter-recruitment and critical military studies

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