How Gender Shapes Security: The Wars We Fight

by Jeannette Gaudry Haynie and Kyleanne Hunter

This book is an analysis of the relationship between gender and security through the perspective of the U.S. military, its integration of women over time, and its consideration of gender perspectives in conflict. Through a gendered lens, we examine how the U.S. military's culture and its historical employment of women shaped the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, drawing lessons from this examination about how gender shapes security, the wars we see,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3031262662
• ISBN13: 9783031262661
• Release Date: June 2025
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 240 Pages