Arms and the Enlisted Woman

By Judith Hicks Stiehm

Book Overview

Presents an analysis of the effects of change in military policy on women of different ranks and ages that reveals how certain functional myths are challenged by the presence of women. This title includes a first-person account by a female veteran of one woman's experience in the Air Force.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0877227055
• ISBN13: 9780877227052
• Release Date: December 1989
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Real Research-Knows the Enlisted Woman

The life of the enlisted woman is poorly understood by virtually all the "authorities". Misogyny and misplaced feminist analysis have left enlisted women the scapegoats of a debate over their participation in the armed forces. Dr. Stiehm has presented the reality of women's enlisted life, although the passage of time has dated the information somewhat. This is a work devoid of the jingoism that taints so much of the discussion of women in the military. It is fundamental to any serious military historian and certainly to the shelf of military women and men.There is no other publicly available work that presents a focus on the "real world" of enlisted women, a world apart from that of the officer.