'It's a Man's Life!': Soldiers, masculinity and the countryside

IF 1.2 2区 社会学 Q3 GEOGRAPHY
R. Woodward
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Abstract

This article explores the relationships between soldiers, masculinity and the countryside. It draws on a variety of published materials ranging from army recruitment literature to military autobiography. It is located primarily in conceptual frameworks suggested by feminist and rural studies literatures. Following a brief discussion of the historical contribution of the military to ideas of rurality, the relationships between soldiers, masculinity and the countryside are explored. First, the ways in which the army constructs a particular view of the countryside are discussed. This view accords the army rights of control over space, dictates a particular way of seeing rural space, and develops a quasi-environmentalist interpretation of the impact of army activity on the landscape. Second, it is suggested that this conceptualisation of the countryside contributes specifically to the construction of particular (hegemonic) notions of masculinity. The ideas of adventure and danger are particularly important in...
“这是一个人的生命!”士兵、男子气概和乡村
这篇文章探讨了士兵、男子气概和农村之间的关系。它借鉴了各种出版材料,从军队征兵文献到军事自传。它主要位于女权主义和农村研究文献提出的概念框架中。在简要讨论了军队对乡村思想的历史贡献之后,探讨了士兵、男子气概和乡村之间的关系。首先,论述了军队如何建构特殊的农村观。这种观点赋予了军队控制空间的权利,规定了一种看待乡村空间的特殊方式,并对军队活动对景观的影响进行了准环保主义的解释。其次,有人认为,农村的这种概念化特别有助于构建特定的(霸权的)男子气概概念。冒险和危险的观念在……中尤为重要。
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期刊介绍: The aim of Gender, Place and Culture is to provide a forum for debate in human geography and related disciplines on theoretically-informed research concerned with gender issues. It also seeks to highlight the significance of such research for feminism and women"s studies. The editors seek articles based on primary research that address: the particularities and intersections of gender, race, ethnicity, age, (dis)ability, sexuality, class, culture and place; feminist, anti-racist, critical and radical geographies of space, place, nature and the environment; feminist geographies of difference, resistance, marginality and/or spatial negotiation; and, critical methodology.
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