Policing Sex and Marriage in the American Military: The Court-Martial and the Construction of Gender and Sexual Deviance, 1950-2000

by Kellie Wilson Buford and Kellie Wilson-Buford

The American military's public international strategy of Communist containment, systematic weapons build-ups, and military occupations across the globe depended heavily on its internal and often less visible strategy of controlling the lives and intimate relationships of its members. From 1950 to 2000, the military justice system, under the newly instituted Uniform Code of Military Justice, waged a legal assault against all forms of sexual deviance...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803296851
• ISBN13: 9780803296855
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 342 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"