Camp All-American, Hanoi Jane, and the High and Tight - 9780807046609
Un libro in lingua di Carol Burke edito da Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004
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A folklorist who taught as a civilian professor at the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, for seven years, Carol Burke analyzes the military as an occupational folk group, arguing that every detail of military culture—from the “high and tight” haircut to the chants sung in basic training—is laden with significance.
Exploring the minute ways that “the cult of masculinity” persists in all branches of the United States military today, Burke unearths fascinating details and offers eye-opening anecdotes about basic training, military dress and speech, the history of the marching chant, the disdain some veterans still harbor for Jane Fonda, and the colorful—and sometimes questionable—rituals of military manhood.
Postulating that culture is made—not born—Burke urges the military to consciously change its policy of “gendered apartheid” so it can evolve into the gender-, race-, and sexuality-neutral democratic institution it needs to be.
“As Carol Burke makes clear in this important book, American military culture is now driven less by soldierly professionalism or patriotic zeal than by a toxic combination of misogyny and homophobia . . . Razor-sharp in its analysis, and harrowingly well-informed, it is essential for those concerned with our military, democracy, and culture.”—Mark Crispin Miller, author of The Bush Dyslexicon: Observations on a National Disorder
"Carol Burke reveals how institutional cultures become sexist--and stay sexist. She uses her sharp feminist eye and ears to expose the boy-o jokes, marching chants, and initiation rituals that are the very stuff of privileging certain forms of masculinity, insuring not only that women are marginalized, but also that men police other men. After reading Carol Burke, the US Naval Academy and its counterparts throughout the military will never look--or sound--the same."-Cynthia Enloe, author of "Maneuvers: The International Politics of Militarizing Women's Lives"
Exploring the minute ways that “the cult of masculinity” persists in all branches of the United States military today, Burke unearths fascinating details and offers eye-opening anecdotes about basic training, military dress and speech, the history of the marching chant, the disdain some veterans still harbor for Jane Fonda, and the colorful—and sometimes questionable—rituals of military manhood.
Postulating that culture is made—not born—Burke urges the military to consciously change its policy of “gendered apartheid” so it can evolve into the gender-, race-, and sexuality-neutral democratic institution it needs to be.
“As Carol Burke makes clear in this important book, American military culture is now driven less by soldierly professionalism or patriotic zeal than by a toxic combination of misogyny and homophobia . . . Razor-sharp in its analysis, and harrowingly well-informed, it is essential for those concerned with our military, democracy, and culture.”—Mark Crispin Miller, author of The Bush Dyslexicon: Observations on a National Disorder
"Carol Burke reveals how institutional cultures become sexist--and stay sexist. She uses her sharp feminist eye and ears to expose the boy-o jokes, marching chants, and initiation rituals that are the very stuff of privileging certain forms of masculinity, insuring not only that women are marginalized, but also that men police other men. After reading Carol Burke, the US Naval Academy and its counterparts throughout the military will never look--or sound--the same."-Cynthia Enloe, author of "Maneuvers: The International Politics of Militarizing Women's Lives"
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: Camp All-American, Hanoi Jane, and the High and Tight
- Sottotitolo: Gender, Folklore, and Changing Military Culture
- Lingua: English
- Autore: Carol Burke
- Editore: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Collana: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (Hardcover)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 01 Gennaio '04
- Genere: TECHNOLOGY and ENGINEERING
- Argomenti : Women and the military Sociology, Military Sex role
- Pagine: 320
- Dimensioni mm: 234 x 158 x 25
- ISBN-10: 0807046604
- EAN-13: 9780807046609