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• catalog abstract "Ground Zero tells the stories of women and men in the military as it relates and examines the issues raised in the polarized debate over women in combat: The biological aspects of women's lives, including menstruation, pregnancy and motherhood, are cast as threats to national security by servicewomen's opponents, while these service-women's advocates use those same issues to press for expanded child care, parental leave and gynecological services. The exposure of. Harassment at the military academies and in the services has signaled a call by their opponents for women to retreat, but it has been taken by their advocates as a mandate to challenge the male culture. The cultural issue revolves around not whether women can perform combat roles, but whether they should. Linda Bird Francke writes about women who have served and died in combat zones and about women who have been driven out of the services and the elite military academies. By harassment. She calls attention to women and men who persevere in challenging the resistance to equality in the services. She describes a determined hard core of right-wing conservatives and disgruntled military men who continue to use every kind of issue and allegation - quotas, reverse discrimination, lowered standards - to reverse women's progress in the military. In the end, two simple facts remain. The Armed Services need women. And, in the male culture of the. Military, the battle of the sexes will never be over.".
• catalog contributor b10319675.
• catalog coverage "United States Armed Forces Women.".
• catalog created "c1997.".
• catalog date "1997".
• catalog date "c1997.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c1997.".
• catalog description "By harassment. She calls attention to women and men who persevere in challenging the resistance to equality in the services. She describes a determined hard core of right-wing conservatives and disgruntled military men who continue to use every kind of issue and allegation - quotas, reverse discrimination, lowered standards - to reverse women's progress in the military. In the end, two simple facts remain. The Armed Services need women. And, in the male culture of the.".
• catalog description "Ground Zero tells the stories of women and men in the military as it relates and examines the issues raised in the polarized debate over women in combat: The biological aspects of women's lives, including menstruation, pregnancy and motherhood, are cast as threats to national security by servicewomen's opponents, while these service-women's advocates use those same issues to press for expanded child care, parental leave and gynecological services. The exposure of.".
• catalog description "Harassment at the military academies and in the services has signaled a call by their opponents for women to retreat, but it has been taken by their advocates as a mandate to challenge the male culture. The cultural issue revolves around not whether women can perform combat roles, but whether they should. Linda Bird Francke writes about women who have served and died in combat zones and about women who have been driven out of the services and the elite military academies.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-292) and index.".
• catalog description "Military, the battle of the sexes will never be over.".
• catalog description "Prologue: The Life and Death of Major Marie Rossi -- 1. The Silk and Chiffon Generals: The Opening Shot in the Gender Wars -- 2. Panama, the Press and Army Politics: The Sacrificing of Captain Linda Bray -- 3. Public Victory, Private Losses: The Price of Progress in the Gulf -- 4. The Pregnancy Wars: Conspiracies, Myths and Propaganda -- 5. The Politics of Differences: Military Motherhood, Public Opinion and Congress -- 6. The Military Culture of Harassment: The Dynamics of the Masculine Mystique -- 7. The Underground World at the Academies: Token Women and the Rites of Male Passage -- 8. Ground Zero: The Siege of the Combat Exclusion Laws -- 9. The Unwinnable War: Successful Women, Threatened Men.".
• catalog extent "304 p. ;".
• catalog hasFormat "Ground zero.".
• catalog identifier "0684809745 (cloth)".
• catalog isFormatOf "Ground zero.".
• catalog issued "1997".
• catalog issued "c1997.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "New York, NY : Simon & Schuster,".
• catalog relation "Ground zero.".
• catalog spatial "United States Armed Forces Women.".
• catalog spatial "United States.".
• catalog subject "355/.0082 21".
• catalog subject "Sex discrimination against women United States.".
• catalog subject "UB418.W65 F73 1997".
• catalog tableOfContents "Prologue: The Life and Death of Major Marie Rossi -- 1. The Silk and Chiffon Generals: The Opening Shot in the Gender Wars -- 2. Panama, the Press and Army Politics: The Sacrificing of Captain Linda Bray -- 3. Public Victory, Private Losses: The Price of Progress in the Gulf -- 4. The Pregnancy Wars: Conspiracies, Myths and Propaganda -- 5. The Politics of Differences: Military Motherhood, Public Opinion and Congress -- 6. The Military Culture of Harassment: The Dynamics of the Masculine Mystique -- 7. The Underground World at the Academies: Token Women and the Rites of Male Passage -- 8. Ground Zero: The Siege of the Combat Exclusion Laws -- 9. The Unwinnable War: Successful Women, Threatened Men.".
• catalog title "Ground zero : the gender wars in the military / Linda Bird Francke.".
• catalog type "text".