Switch to: References

Citations of:

Women and the military:: Implications for demilitarization in the 1990s in south Africa

Gender and Society 8 (2):152-169 (1994)

Add citations

You must login to add citations.

Women's military roles cross-nationally: Past, present, and future.Mady Wechsler Segal - 1995 - Gender and Society 9 (6):757-775.details This article outlines a theory of what affects the degree and nature of women's participation in the armed forces throughout history and across nations. Examining national security situations, military technology, military accession policies, demographic patterns, cultural values regarding gender, and structural patterns of gender roles, the article proposes a systematic theory of the conditions under which women's military roles expand and contract. The theory is then applied to analyze women's likely future role in armed forces. The military's need for personnel (...) Download Export citation Bookmark
The Ethical Ambivalence of Resistant Violence: Notes from Postcolonial South Asia.Srila Roy - 2009 - Feminist Review 91 (1):135-153.details In the face of mounting militarism in south Asia, this essay turns to anti-state, ‘liberatory’ movements in the region that employ violence to achieve their political aims. It explores some of the ethical quandaries that arise from the embrace of such violence, particularly for feminists for whom political violence and militarism is today a moot point. Feminist responses towards resistant political violence have, however, been less straightforward than towards the violence of the state, suggesting a more ambivalent ethical position towards (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 1 citation
When the Earth is Female and the Nation is Mother: Gender, the Armed Forces and Nationalism in Indonesia.Saraswati Sunindyo - 1998 - Feminist Review 58 (1):1-21.details This article examines how, through militarism, masculine imaginings of Indonesian nationalism construct a ‘national feminine’. Whether through popular song, national war heroines, or the institutionalization of feminine roles in the military, the positioning of the ‘national feminine’ is always contradictory. On the one hand, it is gendered and domesticized, while, on the other, it is employed as confirmation that Indonesia has already achieved gender equality. In most instances, once the national crisis is over, and before a new crisis emerges, both (...) Download Export citation Bookmark

1