Camouflage Isn't Only for Combat : : Gender, Sexuality, and Women in the Military / / Melissa S. Herbert.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Herbert, Melissa S.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2022]; ©1998
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; Acknowledgments --; 1. Introduction --; 2. Amazons and Butterflies: Gender and the Military --; 3. Dykes or Whores: Sexuality and the Military --; 4. Camouflage Isn't Only for Combat --; 5. Doing Gender/Doing Sexuality --; Methodological Appendix --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index --; About the Author
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780814790991; 9783110716924
• DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9780814790991.001.0001
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Melissa S. Herbert.

Drawing on surveys and interviews with almost 300 female military personnel, Melissa Herbert explores how women's everyday actions, such as choice of uniform, hobby, or social activity, involve the creation and re-creation of what it means to be a woman, and particularly a woman soldier. Do women feel pressured to be "more masculine," to convey that they are not a threat to men's jobs or status and to avoid being perceived as lesbians? She also examines the role of gender and sexuality in the maintenance of the male-defined military institution, proposing that, more than sexual harassment or individual discrimination, it is the military's masculine ideology--which views military service as the domain of men and as a mechanism for the achievement of manhood--which serves to limit women's participation in the military has increased dramatically. In the wake of armed conflict involving female military personnel and several sexual misconduct scandals, much attention has focused on what life is like for women in the armed services. Few, however, have examined how these women negotiate an environment that has been structured and defined as masculine.