The Palgrave International Handbook of Gender and the Military

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
An Introduction to Gender and the Military....Pages 1-20
Front Matter....Pages 21-21
Liberal Feminists, Militaries and War....Pages 23-37
Anti-Militarist Feminist Approaches to Researching Gender and the Military....Pages 39-58
Critical Military Studies as Method: An Approach to Studying Gender and the Military....Pages 59-71
Quantitative Approaches to Researching Gender and Militaries....Pages 73-87
Qualitative Approaches to Researching Gender and the Military....Pages 89-104
Gendered Organizational Dynamics in Military Contexts....Pages 105-122
Front Matter....Pages 123-123
Ethnicity and Gender in Militaries: An Intersectional Analysis....Pages 125-143
Theorizing Military Masculinities and National Identities: The Norwegian Experience....Pages 145-162
Sexualities in State Militaries....Pages 163-176
Transgender Military Service: A Snapshot in Time....Pages 177-194
The Civilian Wives of Military Personnel: Mobile Subjects or Agents of Militarisation?....Pages 195-209
Military Families: Life, Social Organization and Remote Basing Experiences for Brazilian Military Families....Pages 211-226
Domestic Abuse and the Reproduction of the Idealised ‘Military Wife’....Pages 227-240
Violence in the Military and Relations Among Men: Military Masculinities and ‘Rape Prone Cultures’....Pages 241-256
Female Military Veterans with Disabilities....Pages 257-274
Gender, Mental Health and the Military....Pages 275-288
Gendered Military Identities: Army Deserters in Exile....Pages 289-302
Front Matter....Pages 303-303
Gender and Close Combat Roles....Pages 305-317
Gender and Counterinsurgency....Pages 319-334
Front Matter....Pages 303-303
Gender, Humanitarianism and the Military....Pages 335-353
Transitions and Transformation in Gender Relations in the South African Military: From Support in Warfare to Valued Peacekeepers....Pages 355-368
Front Matter....Pages 369-369
Military Markets, Masculinities and the Global Political Economy of the Everyday: Understanding Military Outsourcing as Gendered and Racialised....Pages 371-385
Gender, Militaries and Security Sector Reform....Pages 387-402
Gender Mainstreaming and Integration in the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation....Pages 403-417
Gender and Terrorist Movements....Pages 419-435
Gender Dynamics in Rebel Groups....Pages 437-454
Women in Non-State Armed Groups after War: The (Non)Evolution of Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration....Pages 455-471
Front Matter....Pages 473-473
Gender and Visual Representations of Women Combatants....Pages 475-491
Military Women in Cinema: War Stories and Future Worlds....Pages 493-507
(Re)Producing an (Anti)Military Masculinity: Popular Culture Representations of Gender and Military Dissent in the Figure of Ron Kovic....Pages 509-523
Gender and Military Memoirs....Pages 525-542
Gendered Representations of Soldier Deaths....Pages 543-559
Back Matter....Pages 561-580