{"product_id":"policing-sex-and-marriage-in-kellie-wilson-buford-9780803296855","title":"Policing Sex and Marriage in the American Military: The Court-Martial and the Construction of Gender and Sexual Deviance, 1950-2000","description":"The American military's public international strategy of Communist containment, systematic weapons build-ups, and military occupations across the globe depended heavily on its internal and often less visible strategy of controlling the lives and intimate relationships of its members. From 1950 to 2000, the military justice system, under the newly instituted Uniform Code of Military Justice, waged a legal assault against all forms of sexual deviance that supposedly threatened the moral fiber of the military community and the nation. Prosecution rates for crimes of sexual deviance more than quintupled in the last quarter of the twentieth century. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Drawing on hundreds of court-martial transcripts published by the Judge Advocate General of the Armed Forces, \u003ci\u003ePolicing Sex and Marriage in the American Military\u003c\/i\u003e explores the untold story of how the American military justice system policed the marital and sexual relationships of the service community in an effort to normalize heterosexual, monogamous marriage as the linchpin of the military's social order. Almost wholly overlooked by military, social, and legal historians, these court transcripts and the stories they tell illustrate how the courts' construction and criminalization of sexual deviance during the second half of the twentieth century was part of the military's ongoing articulation of gender ideology. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003ePolicing Sex and Marriage in the American Military\u003c\/i\u003e provides an unparalleled window into the historic criminalization of what were considered sexually deviant and violent acts committed by U.S. military personnel around the world from 1950 to 2000. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kellie Wilson-Buford\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0803296851\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780803296855\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Nebraska Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 342\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.88d","brand":"Kellie Wilson-Buford","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47965736337663,"sku":"9780803296855","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d1f92ed7-16fc-4a99-b335-d5ab960c6358.jpg?v=1767284457","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/policing-sex-and-marriage-in-kellie-wilson-buford-9780803296855","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}