Mothers as Experts, 1965–1967

Women's Antiwar Diplomacy during the Vietnam War Era ◽

10.5149/northcarolina/9781469631790.003.0002 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Jessica M. Frazier

Keyword(s):

Repeated Exposure ◽

Women's Roles ◽

Viet Nam ◽

American Women ◽

Vietnamese Women ◽

Women’S Roles ◽

The Military ◽

The U.S

In an era when red-baiting still occurred, American women’s peace organizations often represented themselves as mothers concerned for the fates of their children when engaging in antiwar activism. This depiction mirrored that of Vietnamese women who also described themselves as mothers. Thus, the portrayal of women on both sides of the U.S. war in Viet Nam as first and foremost mothers was a mutual endeavor. Even so, Vietnamese women challenged American women’s version of motherhood as inherently peaceful and apolitical by promoting women's entrance into the military and politics. As some American women actively ignored stories of women's violence, others developed new perspectives on women's roles because of their repeated exposure to these alternative versions of motherhood.

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Strengthening Channels of Communication, 1968–1970

Women's Antiwar Diplomacy during the Vietnam War Era ◽

10.5149/northcarolina/9781469631790.003.0003 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Jessica M. Frazier

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

The United States ◽

Middle Aged ◽

American Women ◽

Vietnamese Women ◽

Peace Activists ◽

Draft Resistance ◽

The U.S ◽

Antiwar Protests ◽

Peace Groups

At a time when U.S. women were pushed to the sidelines of antiwar protests because of a focus on draft resistance, American women’s peace groups carved out a place for themselves as middle-aged mothers of draft-age sons. This language paralleled that of Vietnamese women, who also described themselves as mothers of soldiers, allowing Vietnamese and American women to create an authentic bond between them as they also benefited from this language politically. While American women peace activists used this coalition to discuss the establishment of regular communication between POWs and their families in the United States, Vietnamese women publicly admonished the U.S. government's disrespect for life and praised the efforts of American mothers to maintain American ideals.

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“Deliver Me from the Brainy Woman”

Discriminating Sex ◽

10.5622/illinois/9780252041785.003.0004 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Amy Sueyoshi

Keyword(s):

Middle Class ◽

San Francisco ◽

Japanese Women ◽

Women's Roles ◽

American Women ◽

Women’S Roles ◽

Traditional Femininity ◽

The City

This chapter links the rise of San Francisco’s modern woman to the inception of geisha imagery in leisure culture. As women in the city grew more athletic and assertive, moral conservatives blamed higher rates of marital failure on the modern woman who refused to fulfill appropriate women’s roles. Images of obedient, self-sacrificing, petite Japanese geishas flooded leisure culture just as American women seemed to be abandoning more “traditional femininity.” The romanticized representations would neither reflect realities of Japanese women nor benefit those Japanese living in San Francisco even as they appeared complimentary in its depictions of Japanese traditions. The discursive embrace of Japanese femininity would solely be for the pleasure and enrichment of whites in their exploration of appropriate middle-class womanhood.

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Women’s Roles in Technical Innovation

10.3362/9781780444475 ◽

1994 ◽

Author(s):

Ipek Ilkkaracan ◽

Helen Appleton

Keyword(s):

Technical Innovation ◽

Women's Roles ◽

Women’S Roles

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Neo-Ibuism in Indonesian Politics: Election Campaigns of Wives of Regional Heads in West Sumatra in 2019

Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs ◽

10.1177/1868103421989069 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 186810342198906

Author(s):

Muhammad Ichsan Kabullah ◽

M. Nurul Fajri

Keyword(s):

Gender Ideology ◽

Active Role ◽

Women's Roles ◽

Regional Government ◽

Traditional Gender Roles ◽

Political Resources ◽

Political Networks ◽

Women’S Roles ◽

West Sumatra ◽

The Public Sphere

This article focuses on electoral victories by wives of regional heads in West Sumatra province during Indonesia’s 2019 elections. We argue that these victories can be explained by the emergence of a phenomenon we label “neo-ibuism.” We draw on the concept of “state ibuism,” previously used to describe the gender ideology of the authoritarian Soeharto regime, which emphasised women’s roles as mothers ( ibu) and aimed to domesticate them politically. Neo-ibuism, by contrast, allows women to play an active role in the public sphere, including in elections, but in ways that still emphasise women’s roles within the family. The wives of regional government heads who won legislative victories in West Sumatra not only relied on their husbands’ political resources to achieve victories, but they also used a range of political networks to reach out to voters, in ways that stressed both traditional gender roles and their own political agency.

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Confluences in Social Change: Cuban Women and Health Care

Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs ◽

10.2307/174950 ◽

1975 ◽

Vol 17 (4) ◽

pp. 398-410 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Virginia Olesen

Keyword(s):

Health Care ◽

Social Change ◽

Health Care Systems ◽

Women's Roles ◽

The Past ◽

Women’S Roles ◽

Promising Area ◽

Care Systems ◽

Care Problems

A somewhat neglected though thoroughly promising area for the analysis of changing women's roles lies in the matter of health and health care systems within any society. This is nowhere more the case than in the instance of contemporary Cuban health care and the part that women in that society play in the health care systems as deflners of health care problems, recipients of care, and as those who deliver care to others. Both women's roles and health care in contemporary Cuba have dramatically altered over the past decade, thus yielding doubly rich insights, which reciprocally illuminate both issues.

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Strengthening Women's Roles as Risk and Resource Managers at the Frontline of Climate Change; Adaptation Solutions Brief No. 1

10.53055/icimod.694 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Climate Change Adaptation ◽

Women's Roles ◽

Resource Managers ◽

Women’S Roles

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What Would it Take to Put a Chiropractor in Khakis? Effecting Chiropractors as Commissioned Officers in the U.S. Military—A Historical Brief

Military Medicine ◽

10.1093/milmed/usab324 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

James P Barassi

Keyword(s):

Military Medicine ◽

Active Duty ◽

Health Care Facilities ◽

Musculoskeletal Injuries ◽

Government Employees ◽

Care Facilities ◽

Medical Service Corps ◽

The Military ◽

Veteran Health Care ◽

The U.S

ABSTRACT The purpose of this article is to provide a historical perspective on the commissioning of chiropractors within the U.S. Military and to propose a pathway by which this can be accomplished. A comprehensive review of Congressional actions proposed and enacted, and historical documents to create a chronology of actions that influence and support a proposed pathway for commissioning. The authority to commission chiropractors within the U.S. Military has long been provided to the Secretary of Defense, but it has never been acted upon despite decades of legislation. Chiropractors currently serve within the DoD as contractors or government employees; however, the direct association with the military in terms of commissioning has remained elusive. Musculoskeletal injuries are statistically one of the most prevalent combat-related injury classifications within the active duty military and subsequent veteran population. Chiropractic physicians serving within military medicine and veteran health care facilities routinely manage common and complex neurological and musculoskeletal injuries sustained by combat and non-combat servicemen and women. Patient satisfaction with chiropractic services within both the active duty and veteran population is high and routinely sought after. Chiropractic inclusion in the medical corps or medical service corps within the DoD is long overdue.

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On improving the training of aircraft engineers

Economic Analysis Theory and Practice ◽

10.24891/ea.20.5.865 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 20 (5) ◽

pp. 865-885

Author(s):

Leonid B. SOBOLEV

Keyword(s):

Aviation Industry ◽

Information Protection ◽

Global Trends ◽

Space Industry ◽

The Poor ◽

Military Aviation ◽

And Performance ◽

Performance Results ◽

The Military ◽

The U.S

Subject. The article continues the discussion about the method of training aircraft engineers to work in the military and civil segments of aviation and rocket-and-space industry. Objectives. The purpose is to improve the training of Russian engineers to work in the competitive market environment, on the basis of the analysis of experience in training the aviation engineers in leading foreign technical universities. Methods. The study rests on the comparative analysis of implementation of major projects in the military and civil segments of aviation in the U.S. and Russia, as well as programs for training aircraft engineers in both countries. Results. The analysis shows that the duration of modern large military aviation projects in both countries is the same (the comparison of cost is impossible, due to information protection in Russia), while in the civil segment of the aviation industry, Russia's lagging behind is significant both in terms of the duration of projects and performance results. One of the reasons is in the poor training of aircraft engineers to work in the competitive environment. Conclusions. It is crucial to reform Russian aviation universities in terms of conformity to global trends in multidisciplinarity and differentiation of financing and research base.

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