Women, Warfare and Representation

Emerald M. Archer is the Director of the Center for the Advancement of Women at Mount Saint Mary’s University in Los Angeles, California, USA.

• List of FiguresList of TablesList of Graphs1. Introduction2. History of Women's Participation in the U.S. Armed Forces3. Comparative Histories: Women's Participation in the Canadian, British, and Israeli Armed Forces4. Stereotype Threat Theory and Women's Marksmanship Performance: A Social Psychology Experiment5. In-Depth Interviews and Revealing Patterns of Sex-Role Stereotyping6. Women's Representation in War Photography and the Perpetuation of a Grand Narrative7. The RMA Debate: Women's Integration as Military Innovation8. Conclusion

Demonstrates the value of qualitative research to corroborate and illuminate quantitative research. [Archer's] narrative is enhanced by full discursive notes, and the work is theoretically rich, undergirded by the scholarship of Joan Scott, Cynthia Enloe and others ... Archer’s engaging work is theoretically sound and historically grounded, offering thoughtful conclusions about the necessity of comprehensive gender initiatives if the U.S. military is to become more competent and effective in the twenty-first century.