ABSTRACT
Military institutions deeply affect our concepts of gender and technology. These institutions employ most of our technologists; in many instances they employ most prostitutes, in this country and others (Phongpaichit 1982; Weeks 1986). They provide models for the Boy Scouts and other organizations interested in discipline and shaping the sexuality of boys. Once so formed, the military uses masculinity in its creation of soldier or "warrior" (Cockerham 1977). Military settings framed the residual image of the good women-June Allyson forever left behind, forever waving goodbye to her man in uniform, being protected (Steihm 1983), waiting. This good woman, like the farm wife of agribusiness literature studied earlier, contrasts with the bad woman spy, prostitute, or unfaithful wife or lover. The actual women in uniform, and in combat, is generally invisible (Enl0e 1983).
