Abstract

Simona Sharoni, Homefront as Battlefield : Gender, Military Occupation and Violence against Women ; The processes of military manpower acquisition are gendered processes. Military forces past and present have not been able to get, keep and reproduce the sorts of soldiers they imagine they need without drawing on ideological beliefs concerning the different, stratified roles of women and men. To ignore the social construction of femininity and masculinity and the relations between them, makes it impossible to explain adequately how the military establishment has managed to capture and control so much of society's imagination and resources.

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