Hardship Duty

Stephanie Bonnes, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice and Assistant Dean of the Henry C. Lee College of Criminal Justice and Forensic Sciences at the University of New Haven. Her scholarship on military harassment and sexual violence has won awards from the Sociologists for Women in Society; the Sex and Gender Section and the Peace, War, and Social Conflict Section at the American Sociological Association; as well as the Division of Feminist Criminology and the Division of Victimology at the American Society of Criminology. Her work has been published in American Sociological Review, Gender & Society, Feminist Criminology, and Violence Against Women as well as media outlets such as the Washington Post.

• Chapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: Bitches, Sluts, and Femininity Anchors: The Denigration of Femininity and HarassmentChapter 3: Not Safe at Work, Not Safe at Home: Sexual Vulnerability in Military SpacesChapter 4: Administrative Tools of Harm: The Bureaucratic Harassment of U.S. ServicewomenChapter 5: A Failed Promise: The Military Family Is Actually a BrotherhoodChapter 6: Eschewing vs Embracing a Victim Identity: Responses to HarassmentChapter 7: The Need for Cultural and Contextual ChangeReferencesAppendices

After reading Stephanie Bonnes' gripping Hardship Duty, I will never hear the word 'permeates' without cringing. In her thorough, interview-based investigation of today's U.S. military, Bonnes graphically exposes the 24/7 workings of institutional misogyny. For white, Black, Latina, and Indigenous women in this country's military there is no escape from assault, intimidation, and humiliation. Bonnes makes clear that the irresponsibility is up and down the chain of command. This is a horrifyingly valuable book."