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Welland, Julia (2021) Feeling and militarism at Ms Veteran America. International Feminist Journal of Politics, 23 (1). pp. 58-79. doi:10.1080/14616742.2020.1858719 ISSN 1461-6742.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/14616742.2020.1858719
Abstract
This article examines US women service members' and veterans' feelings about their military lives and afterlives as they participate in and attend the annual Ms Veteran America (MVA) contest. Drawing on observations and qualitative interviews, the article explores the workings of gendered power within the US armed forces, and US militarism more broadly, through the tensions and contradictions of these women’s experiences. The article makes two contributions: First, MVA is shown to be a rich site for feminist analysis, with the contest constituting a distinct political space, which permitted the expression of emotions and affects that contestants felt otherwise unable to express in their everyday military lives. Second, through its attention to the range of emotions and affects felt by the women, the article complicates stories of militarised desire as contestants are simultaneously drawn towards and pulled away from their military lives and US militarism. The article argues that the everyday functioning of US military life relies on, and is productive of, particular feelings of its women members, and that these affective experiences matter for understanding US militarism and military power.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman U Military Science > U Military Science (General) |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Women soldiers -- United States, Militarism -- United States, United States -- Armed Forces -- Women, Women and the military -- United States | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | International Feminist Journal of Politics | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Routledge | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 1461-6742 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | 2021 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 23 | ||||||||
| Number: | 1 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 58-79 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1080/14616742.2020.1858719 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in International Feminist Journal of Politics on 22/12/2020, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/14616742.2020.1858719 | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 13 May 2020 | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 22 June 2022 | ||||||||
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