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When Boy Meets Girl: The `Feminization' of the Military

An Introduction Also to be Read as a Postscript

In this introductory article, first the theme of the monograph issue is explored, developed, and put into the context of the overall debate on woman and the military and women in the military respectively. Next, the major findings following from the various contributions and case studies are presented. In addition, the theoretical explanations of the articles are critically examined and synthesized in a model of the various factors that have to be taken into account when analysing the integration of women into the armed forces. This model covers the armed forces, politics, society, culture and the international environment as the crucial dimensions. Eventually, further routes for research are sketched out, pointing to the need for a systematic comparative approach. This may be interesting in order to revise and further develop the model of influencing factors advanced here and to identify the relative weight of the various variables involved. Such an approach may also be fruitful in order to examine the role of the military as both a gendered and a gendering organization. Here, a cross-national investigation of gender role images in the military and in society is suggested. The comparative approach may even be taken one step further by comparing the military to business, administration and other organizations of society.

Key Words: explanatory model • international comparative research • military • sexism • women

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