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Militarizing Men - Gender, Conscription, and War in Post-Soviet Russia (Hardcover, New)
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Militarizing Men - Gender, Conscription, and War in Post-Soviet Russia (Hardcover, New)
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A state's ability to maintain mandatory conscription and wage war
rests on the idea that a "real man" is one who has served in the
military. Yet masculinity has no inherent ties to militarism. The
link between men and the military, argues Maya Eichler, must be
produced and reproduced in order to fill the ranks, engage in
combat, and mobilize the population behind war.
In the context of Russia's post-communist transition and the
Chechen wars, men's militarization has been challenged "and"
reinforced. Eichler uncovers the challenges by exploring widespread
draft evasion and desertion, anti-draft and anti-war activism led
by soldiers' mothers, and the general lack of popular support for
the Chechen wars. However, the book also identifies channels
through which militarized gender identities have been reproduced.
Eichler's empirical and theoretical study of masculinities in
international relations applies for the first time the concept of
"militarized masculinity," developed by feminist IR scholars, to
the case of Russia.
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