ABSTRACT
So far we have examined how female difference is constructed within army culture at an elite policy level (Chapter 3) and how gendered military identities are made through the practices of soldiering (Chapter 4). In this chapter we move to DFRQVLGHUDWLRQRIKRZJHQGHUHG¿JXUHVRIWKHVROGLHUFLUFXODWHLQ%ULWLVKFXOWXUH more widely, focusing on the media as a key site for the public circulation of imDJHVVWRULHVDQGGHEDWHVDERXWVROGLHULQJ:HZLOOH[DPLQHVRPHVLJQL¿FDQWZD\V LQZKLFKWKH¿JXUHVRIPDOHDQGIHPDOHVROGLHUVKDYHEHHQLPDJLQHGZLWKLQNH\ areas of the British media, looking at the ways in which they circulate discourses on gender in particular historical moments and examining their connections with those discourses and representations discussed in Chapters 3 and 4. We will arJXHWKDWWKH¿JXUHRIWKHVROGLHUKDVIXQFWLRQHGLQWKHPHGLDDVDVLJQL¿FDQWVLWH for the working out of debates and anxieties about shifting gender identities and UROHV7KHFKDSWHUFRQFOXGHVZLWKVRPHUHÀHFWLRQVRQWKHUHODWLRQVKLSEHWZHHQ discourses on gender circulating within the culture of the army and those circulating through the media.
