Bring me men
By: Aaron Belkin
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780231702843; 9780231702850; 9780231800679
Subjects: Case studies; Military Sociology; Spanish- American War, 1898; Sexual harassment in the military; United States Naval Academy; Rape; Masculinity
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Crack troops : military masculinity isn't masculine; title: Imperial cruise : military masculinity and the normalization of empire's contradictions; title: Case study one: Penetrable/impenetrable : U.S. Naval Academy, 2000; title: Well-reared boys : penetration and rape in the U.S. military; title: Man over board : naturalizing male-male rape in the U.S. Navy; title: Case study two: Filthy/clean : Philippines, 1898; title: Spoiling for a fight : filth, cleanliness and normative masculinity; title: Civilizing duties : purity, pollution, empire and the return of the uncanny; title: Epilogue : American exceptionalism, military masculinity and the politics of paranoia.