Focusing on the readings for week 3 write a critical analysis while also addressing the following questions:
Class 3: Armed Conflict and Woman Combatants
1. What role does gender play in determining who participates in, supports, or authorizes armed conflict?
2. According to Megan MacKenzie (2015), why did armed combat remaine the (official) province of men for so long in the US military? 3.What political work does excluding women from combat do?
week 3 readings:
1. Sylvia Bashevkin (2018). Women as Foreign Policy Leaders: National Security and Gender Politics in Superpower America. Chapter2: “Interpreting Women, War, and Feminism.” pp. 31-57.
2. Megan MacKenzie. (2015). Beyond the Band of Brothers: The US Military and the Myth that Women Can’t Fight. “Introduction: Myths, Men, and Policy Making” and Chapter 1: “The Combat Exclusion is a Story we tell Ourselves…About Men” pp. 1-41
