War and Gender: How Gender Shapes the War System and Vice VersaCambridge University Press, 17/07/2003 - 523 páginas Gender roles are nowhere more prominent than in war. Yet contentious debates, and the scattering of scholarship across academic disciplines, have obscured understanding of how gender affects war and vice versa. In this authoritative review of our state of knowledge, Joshua Goldstein assesses the possible explanations for the near-total exclusion of women from combat forces, through history and cross cultures. Topics covered include the history of women who did fight and fought well, the complex role of testosterone in men's social behaviors, and the construction of masculinity and femininity in the shadow of war. Goldstein concludes that killing in war does not come naturally for either gender, and that gender norms often shape men, women, and children to the needs of the war system. Illustrated with photographs, drawings, and graphics, and drawing from scholarship spanning six academic disciplines, War and gender translates and synthesizes our latest understanding of gender roles in war. |
Índice
A puzzle the crosscultural consistency of gender roles in war | 1 |
A The universal gendering of war | 10 |
B The universal potential for war | 22 |
C Feminist theories of war and peace | 34 |
Conclusion | 57 |
Women warriors the historical record of female combatants | 59 |
A Female combat units | 60 |
B Mixedgender units | 77 |
A Male bonding | 194 |
B Ability to work in hierarchies | 203 |
C Ingroupoutgroup psychology | 217 |
D Childhood gender segregation | 228 |
Conclusion | 249 |
Heroes the making of militarized masculinity | 251 |
A Test of manhood as a motivation to fight | 252 |
B Feminine reinforcement of soldiers masculinity | 301 |
C Individual women fighters | 106 |
D Women military leaders | 116 |
Conclusion | 127 |
Bodies the biology of individual gender | 128 |
A Genetics | 139 |
B Testosterone levels | 143 |
C Size and strength | 159 |
D Brains and cognition | 169 |
E Female sex hormones | 179 |
Conclusion | 182 |
Groups bonding hierarchy and social identity | 183 |
C Womens peace activism | 322 |
Conclusion | 331 |
Conquests sex rape and exploitation in wartime | 332 |
A Male sexuality as a cause of aggression | 333 |
B Feminization of enemies as symbolic domination | 356 |
C Dependence on exploring womens labor | 380 |
Conclusion | 402 |
Reflections the mutuality of gender and war | 403 |
415 | |
Index | 481 |
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War and Gender: How Gender Shapes the War System and Vice Versa Joshua S. Goldstein Pré-visualização indisponível - 2001 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
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