„Militär und Geschlecht“ in den deutschen Sozial Wissenschaften. Eine Skizzierung der aktuellen Forschungssituation

Military Privatization and the Remasculinization of the State: Making the Link Between the Outsourcing of Military Security and Gendered State Transformations

“…Because the armed forces became more dependent on the female workforce, a more gender-neutral definition of military professionalism became increasingly accepted, and so did women in non-combat occupations. 109 As a result, combat, rather than military service as such, became the main 'construction site' of military masculinity, 110 reaffirming the military as a 'male-defining institution' 111 despite the integration of women. Another reaction to increasing female participation in the military and job losses in maledominated areas during the 1990s were discourses on the 'feminization' of the US armed forces through which hegemonic, militarized versions of masculinity were reconstructed.…”