Anything you can do [I can do better]: Exploring women’s agency and gendered protection in state militaries

IF 2.5 Q1 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Ayelet Harel
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Women who are currently serving in a variety of combat roles and combat support positions in many state militaries around the globe have had to struggle for their positions by proving their abilities, and such struggles are still ongoing. Based on interview materials with veterans, this article examines the ways in which the veterans interpret their roles as women in combat positions and how they understand agency. The article further traces how their presence in war could alter the gendered meaning of protection. While the military is a key institution of overt gendered power in the state, women combatants’ voices can create a crack in the masculine dominance that is taken for granted in state narratives; they can also create a wedge that allows in a reconsideration of gendered roles and power relations in the context of militaries, thereby offering more nuanced interpretations of protection and agency.
你能做的任何事[我都能做得更好]:探索国家军队中的妇女机构和性别保护
目前在全球许多国家军队中担任各种战斗角色和战斗支持职位的女性不得不通过证明自己的能力来争取自己的职位,而且这种斗争仍在继续。本文根据对退伍军人的访谈材料,研究了退伍军人如何解释她们作为战斗岗位上的女性所扮演的角色,以及她们如何理解代理权。文章进一步追溯了她们在战争中的存在如何改变了保护的性别含义。虽然军队是国家公开性别权力的一个关键机构,但女战斗人员的声音可以在国家叙事中理所当然的男性主导地位上制造裂缝;她们还可以制造一个楔子,让人们重新考虑军队中的性别角色和权力关系,从而对保护和代理权做出更加细致入微的解释。
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