A Negotiated Gender Order: British Army Control of Servicewomen in 'Front Line' Counterinsurgency, 1948-2014
A Negotiated Gender Order: British Army Control of Servicewomen in 'Front Line' Counterinsurgency, 1948-2014
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协商的性别秩序：1948-2014 年英国陆军在“前线”反叛乱中对女军人的控制
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10.1080/17526272.2023.2188638
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2023
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West H
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这篇概念性的论文批判性地分析了英国军队如何在“前线战斗”中控制有关妇女战争劳动的知识的生产，以及妇女如何发挥作用来抵制这一点。2018年，英国所有的军事角色都向女性开放，然而，说女性现在才能在一线战斗中服役，这是一个神话。这篇论文揭示了英国军队和女军人之间复杂的谈判性别秩序或“交易”，后者通过她们的共同选择来控制，体现为顺从的女性军人，同时允许她们进行某种机构的抵抗。在军事需要的推动下，维持这种秩序一再让妇女面临不必要的风险。这部批判性的女权主义历史通过解构性别知识体系促进了概念的发展，认为突出女性的声音是进一步推动战争研究的文化转向的核心。
This conceptual paper critically analyses how the British Army exercises control over the production of knowledge about women’s war labour in ‘front line combat’ and how women exert agency to resist this. 2018 saw all British military roles opened to women, yet it is a myth to say that women are only now able to serve in ‘front line combat’. The paper reveals a complex negotiated gender order or ‘bargain’ between the British Army and servicewomen seeing the latter controlled through their co-option, embodied by compliant military femininities, whilst permitting them some agency to resist. Driven by military need, sustaining this ordering has repeatedly seen women exposed to unnecessary risk. This critical feminist history contributes to conceptual development through deconstructing gendered knowledge systems, arguing that foregrounding women’s voices is central to furthering the cultural turn in war studies.