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Author Harris, G. L. A., author.

Title Women veterans : lifting the veil of invisibility / G.L.A. Harris, R. Finn Sumner, and M.C. Gonzalez-Prats
Published New York, NY ; Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2018
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Description 1 online resource (vii, 450 pages) : illustrations
Contents Preface -- Inter-sectionality -- Women as warriors -- Women as "other" -- Women as supporters and caregivers -- Women as "sex objects" -- Women as "marginalized" -- Citizenship -- Agency and second class status -- Who is a veteran? -- The Selective Service Act -- The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) -- The combat exclusion policy -- Military culture -- Male privilege and entitlement -- A culture of domination -- Effeminization of the enemy -- Backlash against women -- Women and power -- Women in power -- Women as tokens -- Women as proxies for men -- The role of equalizers (money, economics, education) -- The civil-military divide -- Who serves in the military? -- The notion of representative bureaucracy -- Legal frameworks apart: the UCMJ v. the civilian court system -- Confronting wicked problems: the role of health and violence -- Determinants of health -- Impact of military sexual trauma (MST) -- The military's response to MST -- Biological, psychological and sociological outcomes -- Conclusion: the implications of veiled invisibility -- The ethics of responsibility
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Women veterans -- United States
Women veterans -- United States -- Social conditions
Women veterans -- Government policy -- United States
Veterans -- Government policy -- United States
Sociology, Military -- United States
Women -- Armed Forces -- United States
Sex role -- United States
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Armed Forces -- Women.
Sex role.
Sociology, Military.
Veterans -- Government policy.
Women veterans.
United States.
Form Electronic book
Author Sumner, R. Finn, author.
Gonzalez-Prats, M. C., author
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