ABSTRACT
In Chapter 3 we looked at discourses on gender that circulate through policy. This chapter turns to the way that gender identities are made and remade within the FRQWHPSRUDU\%ULWLVK$UP\WKURXJKLWVFXOWXUDOSUDFWLFHV)RFXVLQJ¿UVWRQPDVculinities, we consider what these British Army masculinities are like, and how they are lived, embodied and performed through the formal and informal practices involved in Army training, work and culture. In doing this we draw on a body of work that has begun to bring recent theoretical work on gender and embodiment to bear on the examination of military masculinities.2 We go on to consider what it means when women soldiers inhabit this masculine culture and its practices.
