“I’m Not Your ‘Typical’ Military Wife”: The Construction of Gender and Agency Through Stereotypes

2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 376-396 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Ziff ◽  
Felicia Garland-Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Military Wives ◽  
Military Spouse ◽  
Gender Policing ◽  
Two Samples ◽  
Military Wife ◽  
Military Community ◽  
The One ◽  
The Military ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Symbolic Boundary

Within the institution and military community, civilian wives of service members occupy complicated roles. On the one hand, wives are undisputedly crucial to the functioning of their service member husbands. However, wives are simultaneously considered subordinate to their husbands within the military and extended community. Indicative of this attitude are the divisive stereotypes of military wives that range from lazy and irresponsible, to overly rank-conscious and entitled. Based on combined in-depth interviews from two samples of military wives, this article investigates how the women navigate the military spouse role within the institutional, community-oriented context of the military. Specifically, we ask, how do these women construct gender and exercise agency when drawing on the stereotypes of wives within the community? By utilizing such mechanisms as symbolic boundary work, gender policing, and stereotyping, women both reify stereotypes of the military spouse and exert agency in creating the military spouse identity for themselves.

scholarly journals “Honey, I Want to Be a Surrogate”: How Military Spouses Negotiate and Navigate Surrogacy With Their Service Member Husbands

2019 ◽  
Vol 40 (18) ◽  
pp. 2774-2800 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Ziff
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Service Member ◽  
Military Spouses ◽  
Structural Constraints ◽  
Collaborative Approach ◽  
Military Spouse ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
Military Marriages ◽  
The Military ◽  
Depth Interviews

This article examines how military spouses negotiate the decision to become a surrogate with their service member husband and how the two navigate surrogacy together. It is speculated that military spouses are ideal candidates for surrogacy due to their particular status as a military spouse; however, military spouses face structural constraints in their everyday lives which in turn would prove challenging to their desire to become a surrogate. Based on in-depth interviews with 33 military spouses who had been surrogates, this article examines how military spouses discuss, negotiate, and experience surrogacy with their spouses all the while navigating the structural demands of the military and the contractual demands of surrogacy. Findings highlight egalitarian decision making between the spouses, and a mostly collaborative approach to the surrogacy process. Ultimately, this work illuminates how surrogacy is experienced by the women who participate in the practice and provides insight as to how military marriages function.

scholarly journals La violence dans la communauté militaire

Criminologie ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 27-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deborah Harrison
Keyword(s):  
Military Wives ◽  
Woman Abuse ◽  
Combat Unit ◽  
Unpaid Labour ◽  
Military Community ◽  
Military Control ◽  
The Many ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Canadian Military ◽  
The Military

This paper applies a broad definition of violence to the physically and economically vulnerable situation of Canadian military wives. Its reports some of the results of an institutional ethnography of Canadian military wives ' work which was carried out during the early 1990s, and which made some important discoveries about how the military's priorities and forms of organization structure the way the military treats wives, tries to control wives, and benefits from wives' unpaid work. The military's major priority, combat readiness, necessitates the control the military exercises over its members and the specific mechanism of military control known as combat unit bonding. Combat bonding is in turn characterized by cultural homogeneity and its corollaries of sexism, racism, derogation of, and violence against women. Nevertheless, the military extends a diluted form of combat bonding to military wives, in order to exert control over them and appropriate their unpaid labour, loyalty — and frequently, silence. Combat-related obsession with unit morale also often translates into the cover-up of problems, which is a consideration that adds to the isolation of the many survivors of woman abuse who are members of the military community. The greater public accountability of the Canadian military which may result from the Somalia Inquiry makes this an especially opportune time to study woman abuse and other forms of family violence in the Canadian military community.

scholarly journals Resiliensi Istri Tentara (TNI-AD) Yang Tinggal di Asrama Ketika Suami Bertugas di Daerah Konflik

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-20
Author(s):  
Fransiska Damayanti
Keyword(s):  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Military Wives ◽  
Family Stability ◽  
Individual Factor ◽  
Roles And Responsibilities ◽  
Factor I ◽  
The Family ◽  
Research Criteria ◽  
The Military ◽  
Depth Interviews

Separated from husbands because of their assignment is not easy for the wives, many problems that will be faced by the wives related to changes of roles and responsibilities in the family. Resilience is needed by the military wives in facing many problems, so that they can live well. This is a qualitative research with an interpretive phenomenological approach. Data was collected by in-depth interviews with 6 participants, namely the military wives in accordance with the research criteria. The research results were analyzed using IPA (Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis) This study produced 6 themes, namely: understanding the husband's assignment, feeling proud but worried when the husbands were on duty, facing sorrow as military wives, difficulty in replacing the fathers’ roles in caring for children, trying to find support, adapting to difficult conditions. The six themes finally rise to one big theme, namely the resilience of military wives to be able to achieve family stability. Based on this study, it can be concluded that the main requirements for people to survive any problems in their life is the resilience. Resilience is formed by 3 things: I am (individual factor), I have (support) and I can (ability possessed)

Archetype Profiles of Military Spouses in Australia – Identifying Perfect Partners and Mean Girls

2021 ◽  
pp. 0095327X2110293
Author(s):  
Amy Johnson ◽  
Kate Ames ◽  
Celeste Lawson
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Military Spouses ◽  
Military Organization ◽  
Community Norms ◽  
Self Reliance ◽  
Military Wife ◽  
Military Community ◽  
The Military

Military spouses are situated at the junction of the military and civilian worlds. They provide necessary support to military strategic and operational objectives and are also expected to perform a traditional spousal role of the ‘good’ military wife. This article demonstrates the existence of strong military partner archetypes which guide military community norms and expectations of spousal behaviour. In 14 qualitative interviews and five focus groups with Australian military partners, participants revealed many different, yet firm, sentiments related to identity, including fierce independence; a sense of belonging; self-reliance; a desire to help others; belief in fairness and pragmatism. The archetypes outlined in this article shape how partners see their role, and how they interact with other non-military partners and the military organization. This research delivers insights into optimizing military partner services to better support spouses through deployment, relocation and other military experiences.

Military Wives: Ambiguity in a Traditional Role

1991 ◽  
Vol 68 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1307-1308
Author(s):  
Diane E. Levy ◽  
Gary L. Faulkner ◽  
Renee Steffensmeier
Keyword(s):  
Role Ambiguity ◽  
Military Wives ◽  
Traditional Role ◽  
Military Wife ◽  
Traditional Pattern ◽  
The Military

The traditional pattern of the two-person career in the military has undergone a transition so that the contemporary role of the military wife has become similar to the civilian one. Data from 111 women married to servicemen stationed overseas at 13 bases in 4 countries suggest that, although the traditional dependent pattern is no longer universal, much role ambiguity and conflict remain as families adapt to the changing military environment.

Recognizing Military Wives

2018 ◽  
pp. 88-136
Author(s):  
Rebecca A. Adelman
Keyword(s):  
National Security ◽  
Military Spouses ◽  
Subject Position ◽  
Military Wives ◽  
Weak Links ◽  
Military Spouse ◽  
Public Recognition ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Military ◽  
The U.S

The materials analyzed in this chapter illuminate the paradoxical combination of public recognition and state neglect of military spouses, who receive contingent visibility as a function of their proximity to suffering, along with a chronic suspicion about their reliability. To contextualize the figuring of the military spouse, the chapter begins with two key histories: that of women’s militarization during the War on Terror and that of the U.S. military’s approach to military wives. Affective investments in military spouses (read: wives) are made explicit in presidential proclamations of appreciation for military spouses and their sacrifice, the first objects of analysis here. Operational Security materials, the second, reveal the other side of official regard for military spouses, which identifies them as vital but weak links in national security. Conversely, the American Widow Project, a network organized and maintained by military widows, offers an alternative to these official discourses, recognizing widows’ sacrifices but also embracing a vision of widowhood that is independent and pleasure-seeking, and the chapter’s penultimate section analyzes their work. The chapter concludes with a consideration of military spouse PTSD, an emerging line of inquiry that simultaneously maps and submerges the subject-position of the military spouse.

Spearman's Law of Diminishing Returns

2006 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 199-207 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Hartmann
Keyword(s):  
Principal Axis ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
Longitudinal Survey ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Two Samples ◽  
Diminishing Returns ◽  
The One ◽  
Armed Services ◽  
Principal Axis Factor

Spearman's Law of Diminishing Returns (SLODR) with regard to age was tested in two different databases from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. The first database consisted of 6,980 boys and girls aged 12–16 from the 1997 cohort ( NLSY 1997 ). The subjects were tested with a computer-administered adaptive format (CAT) of the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) consisting of 12 subtests. The second database consisted of 11,448 male and female subjects aged 15–24 from the 1979 cohort ( NLSY 1979 ). These subjects were tested with the older 10-subtest version of the ASVAB. The hypothesis was tested by dividing the sample into Young and Old age groups while keeping IQ fairly constant by a method similar to the one developed and employed by Deary et al. (1996) . The different age groups were subsequently factor-analyzed separately. The eigenvalue of the first principal component (PC1) and the first principal axis factor (PAF1), and the average intercorrelation of the subtests were used as estimates of the g saturation and compared across groups. There were no significant differences in the g saturation across age groups for any of the two samples, thereby pointing to no support for this aspect of Spearman's “Law of Diminishing Returns.”

The One True religion in the Military

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
James E. Parco ◽  
Barry S. Fagin
Keyword(s):  
The One ◽  
The Military

The State Policy towards the Homeless in Moldova between the ‘Left Hand’ and the ‘Right Hand’. The Case of Chișinău Shelter

Südosteuropa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 67 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-195
Author(s):  
Petru Negură
Keyword(s):  
Homeless People ◽  
Severe Disabilities ◽  
The State ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Left Hand ◽  
Right Hand ◽  
Binary Approach ◽  
The One ◽  
The Right ◽  
Depth Interviews

Abstract The Centre for the Homeless in Chișinău embodies on a small scale the recent evolution of state policies towards the homeless in Moldova (a post-Soviet state). This institution applies the binary approach of the state, namely the ‘left hand’ and the ‘right hand’, towards marginalised people. On the one hand, the institution provides accommodation, food, and primary social, legal assistance and medical care. On the other hand, the Shelter personnel impose a series of disciplinary constraints over the users. The Shelter also operates a differentiation of the users according to two categories: the ‘recoverable’ and those deemed ‘irrecoverable’ (persons with severe disabilities, people with addictions). The personnel representing the ‘left hand’ (or ‘soft-line’) regularly negotiate with the employees representing the ‘right hand’ (‘hard-line’) of the institution to promote a milder and a more humanistic approach towards the users. This article relies on multi-method research including descriptive statistical analysis with biographical records of 810 subjects, a thematic analysis of in-depth interviews with homeless people (N = 65), people at risk of homelessness (N = 5), professionals (N = 20) and one ethnography of the Shelter.

Hawks and Doves in the Education of Aboriginal Children

1982 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 50-55
Author(s):  
P. Degens
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Total Population ◽  
Good Time ◽  
White Children ◽  
Aboriginal Population ◽  
Educational Issue ◽  
Special Programs ◽  
The One ◽  
The Military ◽  
Aboriginal Children

When I first moved to Coffs Harbour in 1972, I quickly became aware of the problems facing Aboriginal children in the school and community. Now, ten years later, seems a good time to review the position.Statistically there have been changes. The Aboriginal population in Coffs Harbour Shire is 1.6% of the total population, namely: males 200, females 194, total 394.The new Tyalla Primary which opened next to Orara High in 1978 has 29 Aboriginal pupils, while the Aboriginal population of Orara High itself has increased from 10 to 31 students (2 being in Year 11) in keeping with this school’s growth from only Years 7 – 9 in 1973, to a full secondary school by 1976.It appears that attitudes among teachers and white children have polarised. There are the ‘hawks’ and the ‘doves’. When these terms were invented during the Eisenhower years in the U.S.A., it was easy to tell a ‘hawk’ from a ‘dove’. The ‘hawks’ were those who favoured warlike measures and confrontation, while the ‘doves’ were those who wanted peace talks and mutual disarmament. These days it has become difficult to differentiate in the military aviary but in this educational issue there seems to be a marked line of division. On the one hand there are those who condemn as ‘racist’ any special programs of financial aid to assist Aboriginal children, ‘the hawks’, and on the other those who blame a white-dominated society for the problems Aboriginal children face, ‘the doves’.

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