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Negotiating Gendered Expectations: The Basic Social Processes of Women in the Military
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Hicks, Manda V.
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http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1319580341
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Year and Degree
2011, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Bowling Green State University, Media and Communication.
Abstract
This research identifies the basic social processes for women in the military. Using grounded theory and feminist standpoint theories, I interviewed 39 active-duty and veteran service women. Feminist standpoint theories argue that within an institution, people who are the minority, oppressed, or disenfranchised will have a greater understanding of the institution than those who are privileged by it. Based on this understanding of feminist standpoint theories, this research argues that female service members will have a more expansive and diverse understanding of gender and military culture than male service members. I encouraged women to tell the story of their military experiences and used analysis of narrative to identify the core categories of joining, learning, progressing, enduring, and ending. For women service members, the core variable of negotiating gendered expectations occurred throughout the basic social processes and primarily involved life choices, abilities, and sexual agency. This research serves as a forum for the lived experience of women in the military; through these articulations a set of particular standpoints regarding gender, war, and military culture emerge. Additionally, these data offer useful approaches to operating within male-dominated institutions and provide productive strategies for avoiding and challenging discrimination, harassment, and assault.
Committee
Sandra L. Faulkner, PhD (Committee Chair)
Ellen Gorsevski, PhD (Committee Member)
Lynda D. Dixon, PhD (Committee Member)
Vikki Krane, PhD (Committee Member)
Melissa Miller, PhD (Other)
Pages
210 p.
Subject Headings
Communication
Keywords
women in the military
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feminist theories
;
grounded theory
;
military culture
;
gender
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Hicks, M. V. (2011).
Negotiating Gendered Expectations: The Basic Social Processes of Women in the Military
[Doctoral dissertation, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1319580341
APA Style (7th edition)
Hicks, Manda.
Negotiating Gendered Expectations: The Basic Social Processes of Women in the Military.
2011. Bowling Green State University, Doctoral dissertation.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1319580341.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Hicks, Manda. "Negotiating Gendered Expectations: The Basic Social Processes of Women in the Military." Doctoral dissertation, Bowling Green State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1319580341
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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