ABSTRACT

The Routledge History of Gender, War, and the U.S. Military is the first examination of the interdisciplinary, intersecting fields of gender studies and the history of the United States military. In twenty-one original essays, the contributors tackle themes including gendering the "other," gender and war disability, gender and sexual violence, gender and American foreign relations, and veterans and soldiers in the public imagination, and lay out a chronological examination of gender and America’s wars from the American Revolution to Iraq. This important collection is essential reading for all those interested in how the military has influenced America's views and experiences of gender.

chapter 101|7 pages

Introduction

part I|156 pages

Military Manpower

chapter 3|13 pages

Beyond Borders and Combatants

Wars of Empire and Expansion

chapter 4|14 pages

Beyond the Brothers’ War

Gender and the American Civil War

chapter 5|19 pages

Gee! I Wish I Were a Man

Gender and the Great War

chapter 6|16 pages

“The Women Behind the Men Behind the Gun”

Gendered Identities and Militarization in the Second World War

chapter 7|13 pages

Homophobia, Housewives, and Hyper-Masculinity

Gender and American Policymaking in the Nuclear Age

chapter 8|15 pages

Gentle Warriors, Gunslingers, and Girls Next Door

Gender and the Vietnam War

chapter 10|15 pages

9/11, Gender, and Wars without End

part II|66 pages

Mobilizing Gender in the Service of War

chapter 11|18 pages

Gender as a Cause of War

chapter 12|17 pages

Gendering the “Enemy” and Gendering the “Ally”

United States Militarized Fictions of War and Peace

part III|71 pages

Gender, Sexuality, and Military Engagements

chapter 15|14 pages

“Patriotism Is Neither Masculine nor Feminine”

Gender and the Work of War

chapter 16|22 pages

U.S. Military Personnel and Families Abroad

Gender, Sexuality, Race, and Power in the U.S. Military’s Relations with Foreign Nations and Local Inhabitants during Wartime

chapter 17|18 pages

Homos, Whores, Rapists, and the Clap

American Military Sexuality Since the Revolutionary War

chapter 18|14 pages

Rape, Reform, and Reaction

Gender and Sexual Violence in the U.S. Military

part IV|54 pages

Gendered Aftermaths

chapter 19|20 pages

To Recognize Those Who Served

Gendered Analyses of Veterans’ Policies, Representations, and Experiences

chapter 20|13 pages

Best Men, Broken Men

Gender, Disability, and American Veterans

chapter 102|9 pages

Conclusion