Abstract
Tasker provides an overview of the cinematic construction of military women, using examples from US and UK film. Looking first at Second World War she demonstrates that military women are celebrated in film for their patriotism while at the same time films seek to reassure audiences that women’s service does not challenge either military masculinity or conventional gender norms more broadly. Moving on, Tasker addresses more recent films and specifically their handling of combat exclusions, before concluding with an analysis of war/science fiction cinema. Such films find a place for military women in future world or crisis scenarios. Tasker’s work here underlines the complex ways in which cultural forms such as cinema make sense of (and stories out of) real-world tensions.
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