The Routledge History of Gender, War, and the U.S. Military is the first examination of the interdisciplinary, intersecting fields of gender studies and the history of the United States military.

Table of Contents

• List of Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• PART I Military Manpower: Gender, Service, and Citizenship in American History
• 1 The Shared Language of Gender in Colonial North American Warfare - Ann M. Little
• 2 Citizen-Soldiers in the Revolutionary Era and New Republic - John Gilbert McCurdy
• 3 Beyond Borders and Combatants: Wars of Empire and Expansion - Karen E. Phoenix
• 4 Beyond the Brothers’ War: Gender and the American Civil War - Carole Emberton
• 5 Gee! I Wish I Were a Man: Gender and the Great War - Andrew J. Huebner
• 6 “The Women Behind the Men Behind the Gun”: Gendered Identities and Militarization in the Second World War - Sarah Parry Myers
• 7 Homophobia, Housewives, and Hyper-Masculinity: Gender and American Policymaking in the Nuclear Age - Matthew W. Dunne
• 8 Gentle Warriors, Gunslingers, and Girls Next Door: Gender and the Vietnam War - Heather Marie Stur
• 9 Transitioning to an All-Volunteer Force - Melissa T. Brown
• 10 9/11, Gender, and Wars without End - Anna Froula
• PART II Mobilizing Gender in the Service of War
• 11 Gender as a Cause of War - Robert Dean
• 12 Gendering the “Enemy” and Gendering the “Ally”: United States Militarized Fictions of War and Peace - Tessa Ong Winkelmann
• 13 Gender and American Foreign Relations - Molly M. Wood
• 14 Gender and Militarism in U.S. Culture during the Long Twentieth Century - David Kieran
• PART III Gender, Sexuality, and Military Engagements
• 15 “Patriotism Is Neither Masculine nor Feminine”: Gender and the Work of War - Charissa Threat
• 16 U.S. Military Personnel and Families Abroad: Gender, Sexuality, Race, and Power in the U.S. Military's Relations with Foreign Nations and Local Inhabitants during Wartime - Donna Alvah
• 17 Homos, Whores, Rapists, and the Clap: American Military Sexuality Since the Revolutionary War - Donna B. Knaff
• 18 Rape, Reform, and Reaction: Gender and Sexual Violence in the U.S. Military - Elizabeth L. Hillman and Kate Walsham
• PART IV Gendered Aftermaths
• 19 To Recognize Those Who Served: Gendered Analyses of Veterans’ Policies, Representations, and Experiences - Jessica L. Adler
• 20 Best Men, Broken Men: Gender, Disability, and American Veterans - Sarah Handley-Cousins
• 21 The Covert and Hidden Memory of Gender - G. Kurt Piehler
• Conclusion