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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.
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.
For two hundred years the provision of military security has been a
central and defining function of the modern nation-state. The
increasing reliance on private military and security companies in
contemporary conflict marks a fundamental transformation in the
organization of military violence, and it raises issues of
accountability and ethics that are of particular concern to
feminists. This privatization of force not only enables states to
circumvent citizens' democratic control over questions of war and
peace, but also undermines women's and minority groups' claims for
greater inclusion in the military sphere. Gender and Private
Security in Global Politics brings together key scholars from the
fields of international relations, security studies, and gender
studies to argue that privatization of military security is a
deeply gendered process. The chapters employ a variety of feminist
perspectives, including critical, postcolonial, poststructuralist,
and queer feminist perspectives, as well as a wide range of
methodological approaches including ethnography,
participant-observation, genealogy, and discourse analysis. This is
the first book to develop an extended feminist analysis of private
militaries and to draw on feminist concerns regarding power,
justice and equality to consider how to reform and regulate private
forces.
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