Sexing the soldier : the politics of gender and the contemporary British Army

Author / Creator

Woodward, Rachel., author

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Sexing the Soldier takes a critical look at how gender - what it means to be a man or a woman - is understood within the contemporary British Army, and the political and practical consequences of t...

Sexing the Soldier takes a critical look at how gender - what it means to be a man or a woman - is understood within the contemporary British Army, and the political and practical consequences of this. Drawing on original research, this informaive volume looks at:the history and structure of the British Army as a masculine institutionpersonnel policies which deal with gender issuesthe construction of ideas about military masculinities and femininities within the Armymedia representations of the figure of the soldier. Using case st

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