Support the Troops: Military Obligation, Gender, and the Making of Political Community Millar Katharine M.
Support the Troops: Military Obligation, Gender, and the Making of Political Community Millar Katharine M. In the past, it was assumed that men, as good citizens, would serve in the armed forces in…
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Support the Troops: Military Obligation, Gender, and the Making of Political Community Millar Katharine M.
In the past, it was assumed that men, as good citizens, would serve in the armed forces in wartime. While few people now serve in the armed forces, our cultural myths and narratives of warfare continue to reproduce a strong connection between military service, citizenship, and normative masculinity.In Support the Troops, Katharine M. In the present, however, liberal democratic states increasingly rely on small, all-volunteer militaries deployed in distant wars of choice.
As Millar argues, seemingly stable understandings of the relationship between military service, citizenship, and gender norms are being unsettled by changes in warfare. Millar provides an empirical overview of support the troops discourses in the US and UK during the early years of the global war on terror (2001-2010). The effect is a sense of uneasiness about the meaning of what it means to be a good
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