The Routledge History of Gender, War, and the U.S. Military
Routledge Histories Series

The Routledge History of Gender, War, and the U.S. Military is the first examination of the interdisciplinary, intersecting fields of gender studies and the history of the United States military. In twenty-one original essays, the contributors tackle themes including gendering the "other," gender and war disability, gender and sexual violence, gender and American foreign relations, and veterans and soldiers in the public imagination, and lay out a chronological examination of gender and America?s wars from the American Revolution to Iraq. This important collection is essential reading for all those interested in how the military has influenced America's views and experiences of gender.

Section I: Military Manpower: Gender, Service and Citizenship in American History

1. The Shared Language of Gender in Colonial North American Warfare
2. Citizen-Soldiers in the Revolutionary Era and New Republic
3. Beyond Borders and Combatants: Wars of Empire and Expansion
4. Beyond the Brothers’ War: Gender and the American Civil War
5. Gee!! I Wish I Were a Man: Gender and the Great War
6. "The Women Behind the Men, Behind the Gun": Gendered Identities and Militarization in the Second World War
7. Homophobia, Housewives, and Hyper-Masculinity: Gender and American Policymaking in the Nuclear Age, 1947-1963
8. Gentle Warriors, Gunslingers, and Girls Next Door: Gender and the Vietnam War
9. Transitioning to an All-Volunteer Force
10. 9/11, Gender and Wars without End

Section II: Mobilizing Gender in the Service of War

11. Gender as a Cause of War
12. Gendering the "Enemy" and Gendering the "Ally:" United States Militarized Fictions of War and Peace
13. Gender and American Foreign Relations
14. Gender and Militarism in U.S. Culture During the Long Twentieth Century

Section III: Gender Sexuality and Military Engagements

15. "Patriotism is Neither Masculine nor Feminine:" Gender and the Work of War
16. U.S. Military Personnel and Families Abroad: Gender, Sexuality, Race, and Power in the U.S. Military’s Relations with Foreign Nations and Local Inhabitants during Wartime
17. "Homos," "Whores," Rapists, and the Clap: American Military Sexuality Since the Revolutionary War
18. Rape, Reform, and the Reaction: Gender and Sexual Violence in the U.S. Military

Section IV: Gendered Aftermaths

19. To Recognize Those who Served: Gendered Analyses of Veterans’ Policies, Representations, and Experiences
20. Best Men, Broken Men: Gender, Disability, and American Veterans
21. The Covert and Hidden Memory of Gender

Kara Dixon Vuic is the LCpl. Benjamin W. Schmidt Professor of War, Conflict, and Society in Twentieth-Century America at Texas Christian University.