Military masculinities
Subtitle: identity and the state
By: [edited by] Paul R. Higate ; foreword by Jeff Hearn
Contributors: Higate, Paul
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 233
Subjects: Sociology, Military; Men; Masculinity
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-223) and index
Table of contents: value: Foreword : On men, women, militarism, and the military / Jeff Hearn; value: Introduction : Putting men and the military on the agenda / Paul R. Higate; value: The roots of military masculinity / Marcia Kovitz; value: No more heroes : masculinity in the infantry / John Hockey; value: "Soft clerks" and "hard civvies" : pluralizing military masculinities / Paul R. Higate; value: Locating military masculinities : space, place, and the formation of gender identity and the British army / Rachel Woodward; value: The home guard in Britain in the second World War : uncertain masculinities? / Penny Summerfield and Corinna Peniston-Bird; value: Violence in the military community / Deborah Harrison; value: Masculinity in work and family lives : implications for military service and resettlement / Samantha Regan de Bere; value: The state and military masculinity / John Hopton; value: Conscientious objectors in the Great War : the consequences of rejecting military masculinities / Lois Bibbings; value: The popular press and the creation of military masculinities in Georgian Britain / Robert McGregor; value: The militarization of masculinity in the former German Democratic Republic / Andrew Bickford; value: Militarism and masculinity as keys to the "Jewish question" in Germany / Gregory A. Caplan; value: The military and masculinities in Israeli society / Uta Klein; value: Concluding thoughts : Looking to the future / Paul R. Higate