In The Sexual Economy of War, Andrew Byers argues that in the early
twentieth century, concerns about unregulated sexuality affected
every aspect of how the US Army conducted military operations. Far
from being an exercise marginal to the institution and its scope of
operations, governing sexuality was, in fact, integral to the
military experience during a time of two global conflicts and
numerous other army deployments. In this revealing study, Byers
shows that none of the issues related to current debates about
gender, sex, and the military-the inclusion of LGBTQ soldiers,
sexual harassment and violence, the integration of women-is new at
all. Framing the American story within an international context, he
looks at case studies from the continental United States, Hawaii,
the Philippines, France, and Germany. Drawing on internal army
policy documents, soldiers' personal papers, and disciplinary
records used in criminal investigations, The Sexual Economy of War
illuminates how the US Army used official policy, legal
enforcement, indoctrination, and military culture to govern wayward
sexual behaviors. Such regulation, and its active opposition, leads
Byers to conclude that the tension between organizational control
and individual agency has deep and tangled historical roots.
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