_TR_ wrote:
> On 21 Mar 2005 06:32:26 -0800, bluesmama wrote:
> 
> 
>>Looks like it might be an interesting read - anyone read it?
>>
>>
>>"Gender roles are nowhere more prominent than in war. Yet contentious
>>debates, and the scattering of scholarship across academic disciplines,
>>have obscured understanding of how gender affects war and vice versa.
> 
> 
> How "gender" affects war?  Ah.  Of course.  The book is an
indulgence in PC
> euphemisms.
> 
> 
>>In this authoritative and lively review of our state of knowledge,
> 
> 
> Really?  Who's "our"?
> 
> 
>>Joshua Goldstein assesses the possible explanations for the near-total
>>exclusion of women from combat forces, through history and across
>>cultures.
> 
> 
> Ah.  Now it becomes a propaganda tome, if it hadn't achieved that status
> already.
>  
> 
>>Topics covered include the history of women who did fight and fought
>>well, the complex role of testosterone in men''s social behaviors, 
> 
> 
> Hoooboy!  Now the damn thing pretends to be an endocrinology text!
> 
> 
>>and the construction of masculinity and femininity in the shadow of war.
>>
>>Goldstein concludes that killing in war does not come naturally for
>>either gender, and that gender norms often shape men, women, and
>>children to the needs of the war system.
> 
> 
> More PC piffle.
> 
> 
>>lllustrated with photographs, drawings, and graphics, and drawing from
>>scholarship spanning six academic disciplines, 
> 
> 
> "Scholarship"?  Now this thing transmogrifies propaganda into
> "scholarship". 
> 

Feminist scholarship!

Reach for the sick bags again.

D.
> 
>>this book provides a unique study of a fascinating issue."
>>
>>© 2001 Joshua S. Goldstein
> 
> 
> And, of course, an intensive exercise in self-promotion.
> 
> 
>>
>>http://www.warandgender.com/
> 
> 
> 
> Feminist crap.
> 
> 
> TR II
> 
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