Author : Jeanne Holm
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 31,57 MB
Release : 1992
Category : United States
ISBN : 9780891415138
This revised edition of Maj. Gen Jeanne Holm's classic work on the history and role of women in the U.S. armed forces brings the reader up-to-date by covering the role of American military women in all post-Vietnam military operations -- including the recent Persian Gulf War. Just as important is her discussion of the changing role of women in the military during the 1980s and 1990s. Book jacket.
Author : Amanda Huffman
Publisher :
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 42,92 MB
Release : 2019-06-12
Category :
ISBN : 9781079328448
Women of the Military is a compilation of 28 stories of women who have started their path to military life, are currently serving, separated or retired. There are 4 stories from women in the process of joining, 14 stories from Air Force members, 8 stories from the Army, 1 from the Navy, and 1 from the Marine Corps. Women have served in the American military since as far back as the Revolutionary War. As years passed the role of women in the military has grown and changed. In 1948, women were allowed to serve in the US Military outside of war periods. During the Vietnam War, Cmd. Elizabeth Barrett was the first women to hold command in a combat zone. In 1976, the first woman attended a military academy. In 1998, female fighter pilots flew the first combat mission. And in 2016, after years of women serving in combat roles during Operation Enduring Freedom (Afghanistan) and Operation Iraqi Freedom, all jobs were open to women in the military. There is such a rich history of women serving in the military. And while at one point in time most women served in the role of a nurse. Today, women are a part of every job. The role of women expanding military wasn't by chance. Instead, it was from women proving over and over again that they were a valuable asset and could be used and relied on in the field of battle. How do we know what happened beyond the highlights written in history books? I wanted to answer these questions so I started a journey. A journey to hear the stories of military women. Today I host a podcast, Women of the Military, where I get to talk to women who have served in the military. But before the podcast, my interviews were back and forth on paper. I have put together these stories. Women who have served as far back as Vietnam and as current as those entering the military in 2018. Stories from women who have served in the Army, Air Force, Navy, and Marines. If you've ever wondered what it's like to serve as a female in our military, you need to read this book.
Author : Connie Goldsmith
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books ™
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 39,48 MB
Release : 2019-01-01
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 1541557085
In December 2015, the Pentagon changed a rule to allow American women to serve for the first time ever in front-line ground combat troops. Women have fulfilled many military roles throughout history, including nursing; driving ambulances; handling administrative duties; working as mechanics; and serving in the WASPs, WACs, WAVES, and SPARS. More recently women are flying jets, conducting surveillance, commanding naval ships, and now fighting on the front lines. Yet no matter their official title, they have faced devastating discrimination—from lack of advancement, economic inequity, and inadequate veteran support, to sexual harassment and rape. Meet the women who have served their country courageously and who are standing up for fairness in the US military.
Author : Alesha Doan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 44,8 MB
Release : 2019-06-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 110862006X
Exploring efforts to integrate women into combat forces in the military, we investigate how resistance to equity becomes entrenched, ultimately excluding women from being full participants in the workplace. Based on focus groups and surveys with members of Special Operations, we found most of the resistance is rooted in traditional gender stereotypes that are often bolstered through organizational policies and practices. The subtlety of these practices often renders them invisible. We refer to this invisibility as organizational obliviousness. Obliviousness exists at the individual level, it becomes reinforced at the cultural level, and, in turn, cultural practices are entrenched institutionally by policies. Organizational obliviousness may not be malicious or done to actively exclude or harm, but the end result is that it does both. Throughout this Element we trace the ways that organizational obliviousness shapes individuals, culture, and institutional practices throughout the organization.
Author : Katharine Wright
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 27,86 MB
Release : 2019-04-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0429952066
This book examines NATO's engagement with gender issues through its military structures. Drawing on newly declassified NATO documents, this volume provides the first comprehensive account of NATO’s long-established engagement with gender issues. These documents bring to the fore the stories of the NATO women and ‘gendermen’ who have organised within NATO across the decades to advocate on gender issues and highlights the continued challenges to pursuing transformative agendas within resistant institutions. The book argues that NATO is an institution of international hegemonic masculinity, with gender norms and values learned by member and partner states through socialisation and the engagement of a masculinist protection logic. It therefore provides an important context for NATO’s recent implementation of the Women, Peace and Security agenda encapsulated in UN Security Council Resolution 1325 and the seven follow-up resolutions. The volume interrogates how Women, Peace and Security has mapped on to NATO’s pre-existing concerns as a global security actor, providing impetus for further critical knowledge building of NATO which centres on gender. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of NATO, Critical Military Studies, Gender Studies, Critical Security Studies and IR in general.
Author : Amy Nathan
Publisher : National Geographic Children's Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 28,36 MB
Release : 2004
Category : United States
ISBN : 9780792263302
Reviews the history of American women's involvement in the Armed Forces from the Revolutionary War to the present.
Author : Barton Hacker
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 678 pages
File Size : 14,23 MB
Release : 2012-08-17
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9004212175
This volume addresses the changing relationships between women and armed forces from antiquity to the present: eight chapters review the existing literature, an extended picture essay visually documents women’s military work, and eight chapters illustrate more restricted topics.
Author : Martin Binkin
Publisher :
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 42,7 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Monograph on women's participation in the armed forces in the USA - traces the traditional role of women in the armed forces, examines attitudes towards a more active military role for women, and discusses women's rights and sociological aspects, costs and effects on efficiency, etc. Graphs, references and statistical tables.
Author : Brian Mitchell
Publisher : Regnery Publishing
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 13,38 MB
Release : 1997-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780895263766
Argues that women soldiers compromise military readiness, do not meet military standards, and shatter the morale, traditions, and standards of the military academies
Author :
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 29,71 MB
Release : 1993-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780788101021
Discusses the deployment of women in the military to the Persian Gulf during Operations Desert Shield & Desert Storm. Addresses women's roles & performance; ability to endure deployment conditions; effect on unit cohesion; & effect on a unit's ability to deploy. Charts, tables & map.
