Female Warriors and the Right to Fight: assessing the implications of a feminised front-line

到目前为止，关于女性战斗士兵的辩论主要集中在两个主要争议点上：女性(平均而言)身体能力低于男性，以及女性将对部队凝聚力产生什么影响尚不清楚。鉴于英国和美国最近做出了取消对女性参战限制的政治决定，我的项目试图解决的是后一个问题。为了确定女性对群体凝聚力的影响，我将观察性别在几个不同但可比较的军事机构--英国、美国和加拿大武装部队的精英团、以色列国防军和库尔德人民党的全女性部队--中体现的方式。通过这样做，我将为关于团队凝聚力的政策辩论以及关于性别社会建设的理论辩论提供一个经验基础。从本质上说，我要问的是：在迄今全部由男性组成的战斗单位中，女性的加入将如何影响群体凝聚力？这种融合的过程告诉了我们关于性、性别和战争制造的什么？

Thus far, the debate over female combat soldiers has centred on two main points of contention; women are (on average) less physically capable than men, and it is unclear what the impact of women will be on unit cohesion. Given recent political decisions in the UK and US to lift restrictions on women in combat, it is the latter issue which my project seeks to address. In order to ascertain the impact of women on group cohesion, I will observe the waygender manifests in several distinct but comparable military institutions - elite regiments of the UK, US, and Canadian Armed Forces, the Israeli Defence Force, and all-female units of the Kurdish YPJ. In so doing, I will provide an empirical foundation to policy debates over team cohesion as well as theoretical debates over the social construction of gender. Essentially, I ask: how will the accession of women impact group cohesion in hitherto all-male fighting units? And what does this process of integration tell us about sex, gender and war-making?