From "Skirts Ahoy " to "M*A*S*H," "Private Benjamin," "G.I. Jane,"
and "JAG," films and television shows have grappled with the notion
that military women are contradictory figures, unable to be both
effective soldiers and appropriately feminine. In "Soldiers'
Stories," Yvonne Tasker traces this perceived paradox across genres
including musicals, screwball comedies, and action thrillers. She
explains how, during the Second World War, women were portrayed as
auxiliaries, temporary necessities of "total war." Later, nursing,
with its connotations of feminine care, offered a solution to the
"gender problem." From the 1940s through the 1970s, musicals,
romances, and comedies exploited the humorous potential of the
gender role reversal that the military woman was taken to
represent. Since the 1970s, female soldiers have appeared most
often in thrillers and legal and crime dramas, cast as isolated
figures, sometimes victimized and sometimes heroic. "Soldiers'
Stories" is a comprehensive analysis of representations of military
women in film and TV since the 1940s. Throughout, Tasker relates
female soldiers' provocative presence to contemporaneous political
and cultural debates and to the ways that women's labor and bodies
are understood and valued.
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