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Stachowitsch Saskia |
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Gender ideologies and military labor markets in the U.S. / / Saskia Stachowitsch |
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Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2012 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-44207-8 |
9786613442079 |
0-203-80468-6 |
1-136-64235-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (160 p.) |
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Collana |
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Routledge studies in US foreign policy |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Women and the military - United States |
Sociology, Military - United States |
Electronic books. |
United States Armed Forces Women |
United States Armed Forces Reorganization |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [137]-149) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front Cover; Gender Ideologies and Military Labor Markets in the US; Copyright Page; Contents; List of tables and figures; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; (Re)uniting the material and the cultural; Military gender integration in the US; Military gender ideologies in media representations; War and gender as an interdisciplinary research field; 2. Relations between the material and the cultural; Materialism as a research strategy; Media representations as an object of social science research; The media, the military, and political elites in the US |
Critical Historical Discourse Analysis as a tool for text analysis3. Gender, state, and the military; State formation, militarization, and women's exclusion: historical interrelations; Rationalization and professionalization of the US military: the roots of women's integration; Downsizing and gender equality: the 1990s and beyond; Gender policies as reactions to changing recruitment conditions; The Services; State transformation and military privatization; Transformation of military gender ideologies; 4. Military gender ideologies in the media; |
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The first step: contents of media discourses |
The second step: contextualizationProfessionalized military women in the "Techno War" (phase 1: 1990-1994); Sexualized intruders into the male bond (phase 2: 1995-1999); Patriotic heroines in the "War on Terror" (phase 3: 2000-2005); 5. Conclusions; Relations between the material and the cultural; Structural change in US military and society; Change of military gender ideologies; The early 1990s; The late 1990s; The "War on Terror"; Groups of actors and lines of conflict; Gender, state, and the military; Notes; References; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Gender Ideologies and Military Labor Markets in the U.S. offers a comprehensive analysis of the relationship between changes in military gender ideologies and structural changes in U.S. military and society. By investigating how social and military change have influenced gender ideologies, the author develops an approach that (re-)connects military gender ideologies to the social conditions of their production and distribution and explains their transformation as effects of changing social and political relations and conflicts. Examining the role of different groups o |
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