This book offers a systematic and detailed analysis of the integration of gay and lesbian personnel into state militaries, and the implications of this for feminist scholarship. The author argues that the integration of sexual minorities into the military is not inherently subversive of the military gender order but that this does not mean they have been successfully co-opted either. This is because attempts to integrate sexual minorities into the military gender order are unstable and open to contestation. This book will appeal to a wide interdisciplinary audience including feminist and critical IR, Critical Military Studies, sociology, anthropology, queer theory and sexuality studies.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. Queering the Military: An Introduction 2. Segregation and regulation in the military gender order 3. Suspicious sexualities and the construction of the homosexual threat 4. 'Issues of Privacy and Decency' and the limits of the military gender order 5. Re-securing the gender order and the integration of LGBT personnel 6. Subversion in the ranks 7. Conclusion: Reconceptualising the resilience of military gender orders
