Camp all-American, Hanoi Jane, and the high-and-tight : gender, folklore, and changing military culture / Carol Burke.

• Camp all-American -- Military culture -- Transformation -- A few good men -- Sex, GIs, and videotape -- Clothes make the soldier -- Military speech -- Culture and controversy -- Prisoners of war -- Jane Fonda, the woman the military loves to hate -- Fighting the digital war.

• A 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, arguing that every detail of military culture --from the "high and tight" haircut to the chants sung in basic training -- is laden with significance. Exploring the minute ways that "the cult of masculinity" persists in all branches of the United States military today, Burke unearths fascinating details and offers 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. 

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Kvinnliga soldater  (sao)

Militärsociologi  (sao)

Women and the military.  (LCSH)

Sociology, Military.  (LCSH)

Sex role.  (LCSH)

Women soldiers.  (LCSH)

Sex role.  (fast)

Sociology, Military.  (fast)

Women and the military.  (fast)

Women soldiers.  (fast)

Women soldiers  (LCSH)

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