{"product_id":"camp-all-american-hanoi-jane-and-carol-burke-9780807046593","title":"Camp All-American, Hanoi Jane, and the High-and-Tight: Gender, Folklore, and Changing Military Culture","description":"For decades scandals about women in the military have persisted, from Tailhook and Aberdeen to reports of sexual assaults and misconduct in the U.S. Naval Academy, the U.S. Army, and, recently, in the U.S. Air Force Academy as well. In this bold and unflinching book, Carol Burke tries to figure out why this keeps happening. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA folklorist who taught as a civilian professor at the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, for seven years, Carol Burke analyzes the military as an occupational folk group. Observing that both the official and unofficial convey significant information about military culture, she examines every detail of the military: from the \"high-and-tight\" haircut and chants sung in basic training to the pranks and jokes, the drinking games, and the hazing of new soldiers. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBurke explores the minute ways that \"the cult of masculinity\" persists in all branches of the United States military today, and she unearths fascinating details and offers eye-opening anecdotes about basic training, military dress and speech, the history of the marching chant, the disdain some veterans still harbor for Jane Fonda, and the colorful-and sometimes questionable-rituals of military manhood. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eShe argues that acts of harassment keep recurring because historically the military has been \"what made a man of you\"-in other words, an exclusionary all-male institution. But, Burke contends, military culture is made-not born-and now it's time that the military consciously changed its policy of \"gendered apartheid\" so it can evolve into the gender-, race-, and sexuality-neutral democratic institution it deserves to be.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Carol Burke\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0807046590\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780807046593\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Beacon Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/15\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 286\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.88lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.60h x 5.86w x 0.88d","brand":"Carol Burke","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46880928956671,"sku":"9780807046593","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6463fdf8-03f4-404c-84d8-07f9d922f3c1.jpg?v=1747970147","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/camp-all-american-hanoi-jane-and-carol-burke-9780807046593","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}