The Palgrave International Handbook of Gender and the Military

Introduction: Gender and the Military.- Part 1   Conceptual approaches.- Liberal feminist approaches .- Radical and anti-militarism feminism .- Institutional approaches .- Organisational sociological approaches .- Critical military studies and gender .- Intersections of gender and sexuality .- Narrative approaches to gender and militarised security .- Part 2                Exploring state militaries .- Sexualities in the British armed forces .- Intimate partner abuse in military households .- Civilian wives of British military personnel based overseas.- Military identities amongst deserters from the Zimbabwean armed forces .- War resistance in apartheid South Africa .- The recruitment of women in the transition of the Swedish armed forces from conscription to an all-volunteer force .- Transgender personnel in the US military.- Military masculinities in the Norwegian defence forces.- Gender  and the recruitment of Commonwealth personnel in the UK .- Gender and gender-based violence in the Australian defence forces.- Gender and mental health amongst military personnel .- The Falklands War and its aftermath for veterans and their families.- Gender, masculinities and conscientious objection in the Second World War.- Part 3         State militaries in action .- Gender integration in the Bundeswehr.- Gender and peacekeeping .- Gender, military forces and humanitarian interventions .- Counterinsurgency operations in Afghanistan and gender .- The intersection of ethnic and gendered identities in the Israeli defence forces.- Cohesion and gender in armed forces .- Gender and military outsourcing .- Gender and the transition in South Africa from SADF to SANDR .- Part 4                Non-state militaries and supra national organisations.-  Women and terrorist movements .- Gender and identity amongst private military security contractors .- Intersections of gendered and racialized identities in third country security contractors from the global south .- Women in paramilitary organisations .- Women and girl soldiers in Sierra Leone.- Icelandic peacekeepers in international deployments .- Part 5   Representations.- Visual representations of women soldiers  in Israel .- Gender, cadets the militarisation of childhood.- The gendering of military memoirs.- Representations of military bodies in the 20^th century.- Medals, heroism and military masculinities .- Gender, militaries and war film.- The mediatisation of child soldiers in literary fiction and film.- Gendered representations of soldier deaths in the USA.