Regendering the South African army: Inclusion, reversal and displacement

Wilén, Nina; Heinecken, Lindy

doi:10.1111/gwao.12257

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“…I have seen how men sleep around during deployment. They don’t want to use malaria tablets because they can’t perform sexually.At the same time, the male soldiers were critical of female soldiers for having affairs while on deployment, especially the “young ladies” (see also Wilén & Heinecken, 2018). Infidelity had serious effects on trust relations, intimacy, and sexual relations, whether male or female.…”

Section: Postdeployment Reintegration Challenges In the Sandfmentioning

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No Place Like Home? Postdeployment Reintegration Challenges Facing South African Peacekeepers

Heinecken

Wilén

2019

Armed Forces & Society

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This study focuses on soldiers returning from peacekeeping missions and the challenges they experience adapting to the home environment in the postdeployment phase. The article focuses on South African peacekeepers returning from missions in Darfur/Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Burundi. Interviews with 50 South African peacekeepers on the challenges they face in terms of their homecoming, family reintegration, and military support were conducted. Overall, the study found that both external military factors such as deployment length and nature of mission, and internal factors specific to the soldier affected reintegration. We highlight three major findings of our study: Firstly, our analysis show that peacekeepers across gender, rank, and race identify the absence from their children as a major challenge. Secondly, while relational turbulence characterized by ambivalence and concerns about infidelity was prevalent among all, there was a clear difference in the answers between the male and female peacekeepers. Thirdly, a large majority voiced the need for more support from the military institution for their families, before, during, and after deployment.

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No Place Like Home? Postdeployment Reintegration Challenges Facing South African Peacekeepers

Heinecken

Wilén

2019

Armed Forces & Society

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“…Several reasons were also cited for excluding women from combat roles. An important basis for this exclusion is that women are thought to intrude on the male bonding that is considered necessary for optimum combat performance (Firestone and Harris 2003), as well as physical and physiological constraints and the effect this would have on the male bond (Cock 1989;Wilén and Heinecken 2018). However, recent research seems to shed new light on the literature, devaluing and eliminating the mentioned restrictions.…”

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Gender Inequalities in the Military Service: A Systematic Literature Review

Reis¹,

Menezes²

2019

Sexuality & Culture

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This paper provides an in-depth analysis of the literature regarding gender inequalities in the military service. In doing so, it discloses challenges and opportunities for women's integration and finds new avenues for future research. Recent scientific research has evidenced that women still represent a growing minority in most Western militaries. Women's integration deserves equal opportunities across all branches and levels of responsibility in the military, however, their expansion to ground combat roles is still a challenge to the military and policy-makers. Scholars have also reported about the decision to increase the number of women in combat roles, as it may potentiate adverse experiences, due to closer proximity to men in circumstances with little or no privacy. Conversely, scientific research has shown that more egalitarian women reported significantly less sexual harassment victimization. Furthermore, our insights suggest that it might be fruitful to integrate women in ground combat roles as special forces' operators, with a view to induce a reduction of marginalization and sexual harassment, by gaining respect in a male-dominant culture. The presented idea should be interpreted with caution and needs to be supported by empirical research; although we are convinced that future research will be revealing and might represent a game-changing situation to women inequalities in the armed forces.

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“…Ideal leadership traits are constructed as associated with the masculine, such as intellectual rationality and self‐control, aggressiveness and competitiveness, readiness to assume risk and career orientation (O'Neil & Hopkins, 2015), coordination and control, with a preoccupation with the achievement of goals (Kerfoot & Knights, 1999). Femininity is not discursively associated with control, nor does it bring with it political and economic worth (Wilén & Heinecken, 2018). Rather, it is represented as being ‘vulnerable to the demands of others’ (Kerfoot & Knight, 1996, p. 87).…”

Section: Gender and The Professional Agricultural Services Sectormentioning

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Tempered disruption: Gender and agricultural professional services

Sheridan

Newsome

2021

Gender Work & Organization

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Agriculture has traditionally been framed as men's work, while women's contributions to the sector have largely been rendered invisible. This article examines the emerging agricultural professional services sector, asking how a changing environment for agriculture may be disrupting traditional gender norms framing agricultural employment. Drawing together the literature in gender and agriculture, professional services and entrepreneurship and interviews with 22 women who have built businesses in agricultural professional services in Australia, our analysis identifies that a confluence of macro and micro activities are shaping new opportunities for women in agricultural employment. Through leveraging a changing industry environment, exercising agency, (valuing) local matters and communion, participants are disturbing traditional gendered patterns of agricultural employment. Our analysis highlights how, as participants build their businesses and demonstrate agency in a dynamic environment, they value the integrating, reconciling, and synthesizing they experience from supporting the flow of activities in their communities. In claiming their space in the changing landscape of agricultural professional services, they exemplify communion enriched by agency, and we see a tempered disruption of the gendered norms in agricultural employment. The article contributes to scholarship on agricultural professional work and identifies how historical patterns of employment and masculine privilege are being disrupted.

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Regendering the South African army: Inclusion, reversal and displacement

Cited by 23 publications

References 36 publications

No Place Like Home? Postdeployment Reintegration Challenges Facing South African Peacekeepers

No Place Like Home? Postdeployment Reintegration Challenges Facing South African Peacekeepers

Gender Inequalities in the Military Service: A Systematic Literature Review

Tempered disruption: Gender and agricultural professional services

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