Synopses & Reviews
Review
"A vivid and provocative account.... Stiehm's assessment of the myths that sustain 'this man's army' reveals the reasons for enlisted women's ambivalent status—and throws a new light on some of America's real military problems."—Betty Friedan
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"Digging beneath the accumulated rubble of military studies and statistics, Stiehm discovers that ‘defensiveness rather than sense’ drives much military policy on women.... Her brilliant contrasts of the successive generations of enlisted women illumine the frequent and incongruous shifts of policy which endanger women’s careers, and shed light on the obstructions to bonding and networking among military women...not only does Stiehm encapsulate an enormous quantity of useful data on enlisted women, both in her text and in her appendices, but she also tackles the underlying problems, offering for their resolution the stimulating suggestions of an honest, daring, and original mind ranging over little-known territory which the author herself has thoroughly explored."
—Minerva
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"This is potentially a blockbuster book of great importance. The author is a very good writer...her book is not only of interest to military types and to the soldiers themselves but also to feminists concerned with the shape and tenacity of gender roles in our society."—Arlene Kaplan Daniels, Northwestern University
About the Author
Judith Hicks Stiehm, Provost of Florida International University, is the author of Bring Me Men and Women: Mandated Change at the W.S. Air Force Academy.