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Purpose: to introduce several macro concepts regarding the female in military and security environments. This unit is divided into four parts. Part 1. What is the definitional difference between sex and gender? Why does understanding the difference matter? Part 2. What is the history of equality? Why does this history matter? Part 3. What is the legal history of women’s roles in the US military? How has this impacted female careerism? Part 4. What is Women, Peace and Security? Why might this United Nations concept be important today?
Required:
Part 1: Defining Sex and Gender
(1) American Psychological Association definition sheet. “Definition of Terms: Sex, Gender, Gender Identity, Sexual Orientation."
(2) World Health Organization website "Gender, Equity and Human Rights."
Part 2: The History of Equality
(3) Mary Raum. “Feminists, Philosophers, Marquises, Imams, Knights, School Girls and Statues: Ancient to Modern Men and Women Steering Societies toward Equality." April 15, 2014. United States Naval War College faculty paper.
(4) John Stuart Mill. Constitution Society website. Chapter 1 (ONLY) John Stuart Mill 1869: "The Subjection of Women.”
Part 3: United States Law
(5) Kathy Johnson. “Women in Combat History and Future,” Military Law Task Force of the National Lawyers Guild website.
(6) National Women’s Law Center website. Click on link: Women in Military Assignments a Brief History (pdf)
(7) National Women’s Law Center website. "Restrictions on Assignments of Military Women: A Brief History.”
(8) Public Law 625: The Women's Armed Services Integration Act of 1948. United States Marine Corps History Division website. Historical documents, orders and speeches.
Part 4: Women, Peace and Security
(9) Vist the website "United Nations Peacekeeping: Women, Peace and Security." Read the Security Council Resolution 1325. Review some component of the site that interests you.
(10) Review the document, United States National Action Plan on Women, Peace, and Security.
(11) Review the document, Fact Sheet: The United States National Action Plan on Women, Peace, and Security.
Supplemental Materials:
William Breuer. War and American Women: Heroism, Deeds, and Controversy, Greenwood Publishing Group, (1997).
Darlene Inskra. Women in the United States Armed Forces: A Guide to the Issues (Contemporary Military, Strategic, and Security Issues), Praeger (2010)
Caroline Kennedy‐Pipe. “Women and the Military,” Journal of Strategic Studies, Vol. 23 Issue 4. (2000) pp. 32-50.
Film: In Service to America a History of Women in the Military: American Revolution to Desert Storm
Documentary Film: Daria Sommers, Meg McLagan: Lioness. There for the Action, Missing from History, Room 11 Productions (2008)
Women Munition Workers (1914-1918). British Pathé film
Home Front 3: The Changing Role of Women. A BBC film
World War II, New Roles for Women in War, 1942. Buyout Footage Historic Film Archive
Women Power. 1943 WWII Army Air Forces Film
Women of Steel. WWII Public Domain
Supplemental Spotlight: Current Topic Women, Cyber and Cyber Crime
There is increasing evidence that in countries where equality is considered less important, women are being targeted through cyber-attacks. Incidents such as these have some alliance with the protection component of Women, Peace and Security. Two nations in particular are beginning to develop studies in this area: Pakistan and India.
Katie Nelson. "Gender difference could soon be a book to cybersecurity industry," Washington Examiner: Politics Technology (March 16, 2015)
Tanya Saha and Akancha Srivastava. “Indian Women at Risk in the Cyber Space: A Conceptual Model of Reasons of Victimization,” International Journal of Cyber Criminology, Vol 8 Issue 1 January - June 2014.
Zofeen Ebrahim. “RIGHTS-PAKISTAN: For Women, Cyber Crimes Are All Too Real,” Inter Press Service News Agency Wednesday May 20, 2015.