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- Title
Paradoxical Injunctions and Double Binds: A Critical Examination of Discourse on Female Soldiers.
- Authors
Prividera, Laura C.; Howard III, John W.
- Abstract
Women's roles in the U.S. military continue to be a source of ideological debate. This exploratory study examined how women's soldier identities are constituted in everyday discourse. Data was gathered from 193 students on their perceptions and beliefs regarding women's roles in the armed forces and in combat zones. Initial analysis of closed questions revealed that the majority of respondents favored women's complete military participation. HoweveI; examination of participants' open-ended narratives revealed numerous contradictions to their initially supportive responses. Nearly all respondents measured women against a male standard embodied by the (hyper)masculine warrior hero archetype. Our findings indicated that women's full involvement in the U.S. military was subverted by an endorsement of the existing patriarchal frame. Such approaches embody an ideology that continues to impair women's organizational effectiveness and advancement through the reproduction of paradoxes and double binds.
- Subjects
UNITED States; INJUNCTIONS; WOMEN military personnel; ARMED Forces; ARCHETYPE (Psychology); UNITED States armed forces
- Publication
Women & Language, 2012, Vol 35, Issue 2, p53
- ISSN
8755-4550
- Publication type
Article