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Women veterans lifting the veil of invisibility

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Main Authors: Harris, G.L.A (Author), Sumner, R. Finn (Author), Gonzalez-Prats, M.C (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York Routledge Taylor & Francis Group 2018
Subjects:
Women veterans > United States
Women veterans > United States > Social conditions
Women veterans > Government policy > United States
Veterans > Government policy > United States
Sociology Military > United States
Sex role > United States
United States > Armed Forces > Women
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Inter-sectionality
  • Women as warriors
  • Women as "other"
  • Women as supporters and caregivers
  • Women as "sex objects"
  • Women as "marginalized"
  • Citizenship
  • Agency and second class status
  • Who is a veteran?
  • The Selective Service Act
  • The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
  • The combat exclusion policy
  • Military culture
  • Male privilege and entitlement
  • A culture of domination
  • Effeminization of the enemy
  • Backlash against women
  • Women and power
  • Women in power
  • Women as tokens
  • Women as proxies for men
  • The role of equalizers (money, economics, education)
  • The civil-military divide
  • Who serves in the military?
  • The notion of representative bureaucracy
  • Legal frameworks apart: the UCMJ v. the civilian court system
  • Confronting wicked problems: the role of health and violence
  • Determinants of health
  • Impact of military sexual trauma (MST)
  • The military's response to MST
  • Biological, psychological and sociological outcomes
  • Conclusion: the implications of veiled invisibility
  • The ethics of responsibility

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