Arms and the Enlisted Woman

by Judith Hicks Stiehm

Book Overview

"This book is about America's most unknown soldiers-enlisted women in the Army, Air Force, Navy, and Marines." Focusing on the decade from 1972 to 1982, Judith Stiehm uses personal narratives, interviews, policy statements, and other material to explore the experience of American women in the military--their reasons for enlisting, their roles, their self-image, and the way they are viewed by civilians. Although there are now more than 200,000 women...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0877225656
• ISBN13: 9780877225652
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Real Research-Knows the Enlisted Woman

The life of the enlisted woman is poorly understood by virtually all the "authorities". Misogyny and misplaced feminist analysis have left enlisted women the scapegoats of a debate over their participation in the armed forces. Dr. Stiehm has presented the reality of women's enlisted life, although the passage of time has dated the information somewhat. This is a work devoid of the jingoism that taints so much of the discussion of women in the military. It is fundamental to any serious military historian and certainly to the shelf of military women and men.There is no other publicly available work that presents a focus on the "real world" of enlisted women, a world apart from that of the officer.