Regimented Life

An Ethnography of Army Wives

Alexandra Hyde (Lecturer, University College London)

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English

Edinburgh University Press
31 August 2025

Social & cultural anthropology; Military life & institutions

Series: Advances in Critical Military Studies

Based on unprecedented ethnographic access to a regimental community in Germany during a period of deployment to Afghanistan, this analysis of the ambiguities of gendered agency focuses not on the front-line experience of soldiers, but on that of the wives 'left behind'. Alexandra Hyde explores the mobile and contradictory position of civilian women as they navigate British Army culture and its reified production of social belonging. The book considers wives' exposure to

and implication in

processes of militarisation and, ultimately, war and state-sanctioned violence as they 'live with' rather than 'serve in' the military. Chapters explore multiple circuits of mobility and migration; women's productive and reproductive labour; rank and its relationship to class and ethnicity; and women's pre-emptive management of grief and human vulnerability. What emerges is a critical, feminist exploration of the composite relations of gender, class, sexuality and nation that combine to make and remake military power.

By: Alexandra Hyde (Lecturer University College London)
Imprint: Edinburgh University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781474443937
ISBN 10: 1474443931
Series: Advances in Critical Military Studies
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 31 August 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Alexandra Hyde is a Lecturer in Gender Studies at University College London, where she is Co-Director of Gender and Sexuality Studies at the Centre for Multidisciplinary and Intercultural Inquiry (CMII). Her research on women’s experiences of war and military power has been published in journals such as Gender, Place and Culture, along with methodological reflections and work on feminist epistemology in the Journal of Narrative Politics and elsewhere. Her novel, Violets, was published by Granta in 2021 and touches on many related themes, which also feed into her teaching on the MA in Gender, Society and Representation at UCL.