Abstract

COSTANTINI, Pablo. The most astoundingly modern weapon in the western arsenal: Female militarization in the contemporary world. Aljaba [online]. 2008, vol.12, pp.97-116. ISSN 1669-5704.

The strong increase of the female component in many armies, unusual in times of peace, the admission of women to combat specialties that in other times they only accede exceptionally, and the access to power positions that used to be unthinkable a few decades ago show us that in the last thirty years certain changes has been made in institutions historically known as almost exclusively for men. The present work explores the sense of such change, showing in the first place, its collision with male and female representations deeply assumed as true. On the following lines there is a brief story of the matter, reaching the present time to argue later about some of the controversial issues of the contemporary debate about this particular topic, as the impact of the female presence in the armies and their effectiveness in the military units; the dubious perspective of that presence by it self radically transforms the armies and in this way affects positively the male-female relationships in the civil world; the way in that certain gender issues are being connected with the arguments about the international security.

Keywords : Military; War; Gender stereotypes.

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