Women in the military and in armed conflict / Helena Carreiras, Gerhard Kümmel (editions.)

Includes bibliographical references.

Women in combat: reconsidering the case against the deployment of women in combat-support and combat units -- Off limits: the cults of the body and social homogeneity as discoursive weapons targeting gender integration in the military -- Unsung heroes: women's contributions in the military and why their song goes unsung -- About intervening in vulnerable societies: gender in military peacekeeping of the Bundeswehr -- Women in the Netherlands armed forces -- Defying the prohibited arena: women in the UAE military -- From loyalty to dissent: how military women respond to integration dilemmas -- Chivalry in the military -- The militarization of gender and sexuality in the Iraq War -- Violence against women in conflict zones.