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11%OFFMaya Eichler - Militarizing Men: Gender, Conscription, and War in Post-Soviet Russia - 9780804776202 - V9780804776202
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Militarizing Men: Gender, Conscription, and War in Post-Soviet Russia

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Description for Militarizing Men: Gender, Conscription, and War in Post-Soviet Russia Paperback. The book shows how men's militarization has been both challenged and reinforced in the context of Russia's post-communist transition and the Chechen wars. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; HBJD; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 456.
A state's ability to maintain mandatory conscription and wage war rests on the idea that a real man is one who has served in the military. Yet masculinity has no inherent ties to militarism. The link between men and the military, argues Maya Eichler, must be produced and reproduced in order to fill the ranks, engage in combat, and mobilize the population behind war. In the context of Russia's post-communist transition and the Chechen wars, men's militarization has been challenged and reinforced. Eichler uncovers the challenges by exploring widespread draft evasion and desertion, anti-draft and anti-war activism led ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Stanford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Weight
350g
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804776202
SKU
V9780804776202
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About Maya Eichler
Maya Eichler is a research fellow in Gender and International Security at the Harvard Kennedy School. This is her first book.

Reviews for Militarizing Men: Gender, Conscription, and War in Post-Soviet Russia
Anyone interested in Russia's struggles today will want to read [Eichler's] work to understand better the deep ambivalences riveting Russian society and the state's attempts to mobilize different ideologies (especially masculine ones) to try to knit that society together again.
Elizabeth A. Wood This is an outstanding contribution to scholarship on gender and militarism in Russia. Eichler ... Read more

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