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Sto caricando le informazioni... Ground Zero: The Gender Wars in the Militarydi Linda Bird Francke
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Excellent book that traces women's acceptance in the military from the beginning of the All Volunteer Force in the 1970s through Desert Shield Storm in the early 1990s. Well documented. Uses both official documents and official histories and interpretations as well as the experiences of individual servicemen and women. Includes good material on Grenada, Panama, DACOWITS and the Linda Bray affair. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
"Ground Zero tells the stories of women and men in the military as it relates and examines the issues raised in the polarized debate over women in combat: The biological aspects of women's lives, including menstruation, pregnancy and motherhood, are cast as threats to national security by servicewomen's opponents, while these service-women's advocates use those same issues to press for expanded child care, parental leave and gynecological services. The exposure of harassment at the military academies and in the services has signaled a call by their opponents for women to retreat, but it has been taken by their advocates as a mandate to challenge the male culture. The cultural issue revolves around not whether women can perform combat roles, but whether they should." "Linda Bird Francke writes about women who have served and died in combat zones and about women who have been driven out of the services and the elite military academies by harassment. She calls attention to women and men who persevere in challenging the resistance to equality in the services. She describes a determined hard core of right-wing conservatives and disgruntled military men who continue to use every kind of issue and allegation - quotas, reverse discrimination, lowered standards - to reverse women's progress in the military." "In the end, two simple facts remain. The Armed Services need women. And, in the male culture of the military, the battle of the sexes will never be over."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)355.0082Social sciences Public Administration, Military Science Military Science Culture StudiesClassificazione LCVotoMedia:
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