Camp All-American, Hanoi Jane, and the High-and-Tight: Gender, Folklore, and Changing Military Culture...

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Carol Burke

Camp All-American, Hanoi Jane, and the High-and-Tight

Gender, Folklore, and Changing Military Culture

Carol Burke

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Beacon Press
01 September 2018

Military history; Gender studies: women; Social & cultural anthropology

For decades scandals about women in the military have persisted, from Tailhook and Aberdeen to reports of sexual assaults and misconduct in the U.S. Naval Academy, the U.S. Army, and, recently, in the U.S. Air Force Academy as well. In this bold and unflinching book, Carol Burke tries to figure out why this keeps happening.

A folklorist who taught as a civilian professor at the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, for seven years, Carol Burke analyzes the military as an occupational folk group. Observing that both the official and unofficial convey significant information about military culture, she examines every detail of the military- from the ""high-and-tight"" haircut and chants sung in basic training to the pranks and jokes, the drinking games, and the hazing of new soldiers.

Burke explores the minute ways that ""the cult of masculinity"" persists in all branches of the United States military today, and she unearths fascinating details and offers eye-opening anecdotes about basic training, military dress and speech, the history of the marching chant, the disdain some veterans still harbor for Jane Fonda, and the colorful-and sometimes questionable-rituals of military manhood.

She argues that acts of harassment keep recurring because historically the military has been ""what made a man of you""-in other words, an exclusionary all-male institution. But, Burke contends, military culture is made-not born-and now it's time that the military consciously changed its policy of ""gendered apartheid"" so it can evolve into the gender-, race-, and sexuality-neutral democratic institution it deserves to be.

From the Hardcover edition.

By: Carol Burke
Imprint: Beacon Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 227mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 380g
ISBN: 9780807046593
ISBN 10: 0807046590
Pages: 286
Publication Date: 01 September 2018
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Carol Burke is associate professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California at Irvine. The author of five books, her work as a folklorist ranges from explorations of the folk life of rural Midwestern families to the penal system to the modern military. She lives in Irvine, California.