ABSTRACT
Brown has identified what the military has constructed as a culture of domination for its call to arms, even as the institution finds itself at odds with the needs of the modern military. The military has repeatedly utilized the recruitment of women into its ranks as a convenient resource to simply backfill men off to war as it did en masse prior, during World War I and in Operations Enduring and Iraqi Freedom. The American military is the closest personification of masculine domination or hypermasculinity. In this culture, doing gender results in clear lines of demarcation in what constitutes masculinity and femininity, and by all accounts what delineates masculinity always trumps that which defines femininity. Masculine domination also entails competition which is considered no activity for a woman. Stoltenberg writes that schemes like pornography function to promote and institutionalize the domination of men over women, just as segregation was a tool for racism and the fortification of whites as supreme.
