Anthropology and the United States Military, P. Frese; M. Harrell

Becki Scola's book provides an explanation for these two interrelated puzzles on electoral gender gaps. She examines the factors surrounding the uneven proportional distribution of female legislators, and then explores why gender appears to be an advantage for women of color office holders. Through an examination of the divergent state-level institutional and environmental conditions, Scola maps out the factors that contribute to more, or less, female legislative service and how race/ethnicity intersects with these conditions. She reveals that the common conceptions and theories that help us understand women's office holding in general do not equally apply to both white women and women of color's legislative service..

The first book-length study to analyze how race informs gender in terms of patterns of office holding, Gender, Race, and Office Holding in the United States provides insight into both underrepresentation in general as well as the underlying dynamics of representation within specific groups of women.

Rachel Woodward and Claire Duncanson

Part 1 Conceptual approaches

- Liberal feminist approaches - Caroline Kennedy-Pipe (University of Hull) or Laura M. Miller (RAND, Washington DC)

- Radical and anti-militarism feminism - Cynthia Cockburn (independent scholar, UK) or Cynthia Enloe (Clark University) or Claire Duncanson (University of Edinburgh)

- Institutional approaches - Marina Nuciari (University of Turin and Italian Defence Academy)

- Organisational sociological approaches - Helena Carreriras (University Institute of Lisbon) or Christopher Dandeker (Kings College London)

- Intersections of gender and sexuality - Melissa Embser-Herbert (University of New Brunswick)

- Narrative approaches to gender and militarised security - Annick Wibben, University of San Francisco

Part 2 Exploring state militaries

- Sexualities in the British armed forces - Sarah Bulmer (University of Exeter)

- Intimate partner abuse in military households - Harriet Gray (London School of Economics)

- Civilian wives of British military personnel based overseas - Alex Hyde (London School of Economics)

- Military identities amongst deserters from the Zimbabwean armed forces - Godfrey Maringara (University of the Western Cape, South Africa)

- War resistance in apartheid South Africa - Daniel Conway (Loughborough University)

- The recruitment of women in the transition of the Swedish armed forces from conscription to an all-volunteer force - Emma Jonsson (Swedish National Defence College)

- Transgender personnel in the US military - Aaron Belkin (Palm Centre, San Fransisco State University)

- Military masculinities in the Norwegian defence forces - Nina Rones (Norwegian Defence University College and Norwegian School of Sport Sciences)

- Gender and the recruitment of Commonwealth personnel in the UK - Vron Ware (University of Kingston)

- Gender and gender-based violence in the Australian defence forces - Ben Wadham (Finders University)

- Gender and mental health amongst military personnel - Charlotte Woodhead et al (Kings College London)

- The Falklands War and its aftermath for veterans and their families - Helen Parr (University of Keele)

- Gender, masculinities and conscientious objection in the Second World War - Wendy Ugolini (University of Edinburgh) or Temperate masculinities in the Second World War - Sonya Rose (University of Warwick)

Part 3 State militaries in action