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Gender roles are nowhere more prominent than in war, yet our understanding of the relationship between gender and war is confused. Joshua Goldstein analyzes the near-total exclusion of women from combat forces, through history and across cultures. He concludes that killing in war does not come naturally for either gender, and that gender norms often mold men, women, and children to the needs of the war system.
- Sales Rank: #729774 in Books
- Brand: Brand: Cambridge University Press
- Published on: 2001-10-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.98" h x 1.38" w x 5.98" l, 2.18 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 540 pages
- Used Book in Good Condition
From Publishers Weekly
The war between the sexes is not so different from war itself, according to this provocative and disturbing study of how gender is inextricably embedded into human conceptions of war and aggression. Pointing to consistent, cross-cultural gender arrangements throughout history most fighting soldiers have been male; patriarchies have traditionally used the ideal of the vulnerable female to encourage male violence during war Goldstein (Three Way Street) has amassed a huge array of research, literature and anecdote in this comprehensive, cohesive overview of dozens of subtopics, from myths of Amazon warriors to changes in the design and marketing of GI Joe dolls over the decades. He astutely evaluates studies of the effects of childhood sex segregation, drawing disconcerting conclusions that it prepares and preconditions children for adult wartime behavior. His analysis of female military imagery and women's frequent participation in revolutionary movements is imaginative and convincing: "The image of a woman holding a rifle and a baby is found in liberation movements across the third world." At times it seems like Goldstein, professor of international relations at the American University in Washington, D.C., has bitten off more than anyone could chew in a single volume. His inquiry into wartime rape and the feminization of the male enemy relies too heavily on Richard C. Trexler's fascinating but flawed Sex and Conquest, and his worthwhile critical use of Lionel Tiger's classic Men in Groups falls short of grappling with the book's problems. But overall, he has produced a remarkable compendium of information and analysis that moves toward a vital, ongoing cultural discussion. Photos and illus.
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Review
"Goldstein has amassed a huge array of research, literature and anecdote in this comprehensive, cohesive overview of dozens of subtopics, from myths of Amazon warriors to changes in the design of GI Joe dolls over the decades." Publishers Weekly
"...a fascinating book about an important issue. I thoroughly recommend it to everyone who has an interest in why we humans behave the way we do." Jane Goodall, primatologist, The Jane Goodall Institute
About the Author
Joshua Goldstein is Professor of International Relations at the American University, Washington DC. He is the author of several research works and textbooks, and has specialised in research into the management of regional conflicts.
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful.
Excellent Overview of Gender Issues
By H. Campbell
This book, though primarily focused on the issue of the warmaking propensities of the genders, is actually a sound overall assessment of gender culture, history and sociology. The author's (Mr. Goldstein) feminist bias is evident but he makes unfiltered evaluations of the sometimes ambiguous facts. His recitation of the statistics involved in this research does get a bit tedious at times, and I'll admit I found the history and cultural studies more interesting than the dry numerical comparisons and graphs (as an engineer, I get enough of that at work.). He cites the few instances of women in combat, especially the Dahomey all-female regiments in the 19th century and the stubborn woman warriors in our own Civil War, several of whom were wounded, had their sex exposed, were drummed out of their unit, and promptly found another unknowing miltary faction who bought the deception all over again. Hollywood, where are you? His insistence on using our DNAS-kin primates as comparators of social-warfare behavior I found to be of limited use, as, ultimately, I believe he did. This stuff could have been significantly curtailed. But his description of human heterosexuality, homosexuality, prostitution, labor substitution, women in the military and temporary women's liberation during war time was most enlightening. He makes a good case that women actualy serve to enable and enforce men's war making proclivities by spurning them as womanly cowards if they retreat on the battlefield and also serve as key elements in the patriotic zeitgeist mobilized by government propaganda. Interestingly, the role of testosterone in war making tendencies seems to be muted at best, despite its universally recognized potential for aggressive behavior. Goldstein also demonstrates that women have been as big an advocate of war as they have been war protestors, so that the mythology of women as natural peacelovers is little more than that. The book also discusses the dichotomy society finds itself in when it talks of desiring peace; it promotes the romance of war almost from the conception of the male child and praises all the warrior virtues as virtually the only acceptable definition of manliness. Goldstein, at the end, mildly endorses sports as an alternative for these military energies, but without much conviction. I, for one, think that war and killing is as essential to the human makeup as the need to love and procreate is, the yin and yang of humanity. The idea of universal peace is as contrary to the natural order of things as black would be without white. That is not a PC view of life but that's what any reader of history must inevitably surmise.
9 of 13 people found the following review helpful.
The Feminist Male Maker
By Chris M. White
Goldstein's approach should grab male readers especially interested in understanding how gender shapes the war system, for he comes at it from an interdisciplinary angle that attempts to thoroughly cover the popular explanations for gender roles in war and then challenge them with the most up to date evidence. His conclusion after all of this is that gender roles are not inevitable or inherent in human nature, but that human culture, responding to subtle differences between the genders, shapes the war system along gendered lines. A must read for all gender scholars and activists.
4 of 16 people found the following review helpful.
Complete and fair assesment
By César González Rouco
I read the book some months ago, and I got the impression that it was quite complete, and fairly assessed. On the other hand, it almost dropped from my hands half a dozen times, because, although the subject was very interesting, most of the time the reading was boring. Therefore, my rate is 5 (content) and 2/3 (pleasure of reading).
Other books on war that I would recommend would be:
- above all, the best, "War on Human Civilization" by Azar Gat;
- also, "War before Civilization. The Myth of the Peaceful Savage", by Lawrence Keeley; "How War Began" by Keith F. Otterbein; and "War and Peace and War: The Rise and Fall of Empires" by Peter Turchin.
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