Primary Sources

The following online sites contain useful primary source materials for the policy position paper assignment.

Library of Congress (Washington, DC)

Library of Congress digital collections on war/military topics:

https://www.loc.gov/collections/?fa=subject:war+%26+military

Veterans History Project (transcripts and video of oral history interviews with veterans, and some private papers, photos, and unpublished memoirs)

https://www.loc.gov/vets/

ProQuest (via Warwick Library) digital databases

Historical Newspapers: Los Angeles Times; New York Times; Washington Post

Women's Magazine Archive

Nexis (via Warwick Library) [for press content from 1980-present; congressional reports; military testimony on Capitol Hill]

https://advance.lexis.com/bisacademicresearchhome?crid=5717ef58-8f31-4545-97fb-5d03f174d95e&pdmfid=1516831&pdisurlapi=true

RAND Corporation [influential think-tank that has produced detailed reports on many salient topics, including women in combat; DADT/gay exclusion; transgender service]

https://www.rand.org/

Rutgers Oral History Archive

https://oralhistory.rutgers.edu/military-history

US Army Heritage and Education Center

https://arena.usahec.org/web/arena

US Department of Defense

https://www.defense.gov/

Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Military (DACOWITS)

https://dacowits.defense.gov/

militaryonesource [advice for US military personnel and 'dependents']

https://www.militaryonesource.mil/

US National Archives

https://www.archives.gov/research/catalog

Women in the military resources:

https://www.archives.gov/research/alic/reference/military/women.html

Women Veterans Historical Project (University of North Carolina-Greensboro)

http://libcdm1.uncg.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/WVHP/

Advocacy organizations

[NB: in addition to the sites below, you should also consult the lecture slides, esp. for weeks 7-10, as these include links to various campaigning and support groups for LGBTQ military personnel and veterans]

American Civil Liberties Union [ACLU]

https://www.aclu.org/

American Veterans for Equal Rights

https://aver.us/

Human Rights Campaign [advocacy organization involved in campaigning against DADT]

https://www.hrc.org/

Palm Center [advocacy organization dedicated to promoting LGBTQ+ rights in the military]

https://www.palmcenter.org/

Secondary Sources

• Betty Sowers Alt and Bonne Domrose Stone, Campfollowing: A History of the Military Wife (New York: Praeger, 1991)
• Donna Alvah, Unofficial Ambassadors: American Military Families Overseas and the Cold War, 1946-65 (New York: NYU Press, 2007)
• Beth L. Bailey and David Farber, The First Strange Place: Race and Sex in World War II Hawaii (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992)
• Allan Bérubé, Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War II (New York: Free Press, 1990) [e-book]
• Anu Bhagwati, "The Unheard Victims of The Invisible War: The Victims of Sexual Assault in the US Military," Foreign Affairs, March 28, 2013
• Beth Bailey, America's Army: Making the All-Volunteer Force (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009) [e-book]
• Beth Bailey, "The Politics of Dancing: 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' and the Role of Moral Claims," Journal of Policy History 25, 1 (2013): 89-113
• Tarak Barkawi et al, "Rights and Fights: Sexual Orientation and Military Effectiveness," International Security 24, 1 (Summer 1999): 181-201
• Aaron Belkin, Bring Me Men: Military Masculinity and the Benign Façade of American Empire, 1898-2001 (New York: Columbia University Press, 2012)
• Aaron Belkin and Melissa Sheridan Embser-Herbert, "A Modest Proposal: Privacy as a Flawed Rationale for the Exclusion of Gays and Lesbians from the U.S. Military," International Security 27, 2 (Fall 2002): 178-97
• Helen Benedict, The Lonely Soldier: The Private War of Women Serving in Iraq (Boston: Beacon Press, 2009) [e-book]
• Jane Blair, Hesitation Kills: A Female Marine Officer's Combat Experience in Iraq (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2011) [e-book]
• Laura Browder, When Janey Comes Marching Home: Portraits of Women Combat Veterans (Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 2010) [e-book]
• Melissa T. Brown, Enlisting Masculinity: The Construction of Gender in US Military Recruiting Advertising During the All Volunteer Force (Oxford: OUP, 2012) [e-book]
• Margot Canaday, The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009)
• Helen Carreiras and Gerhard Kummel (eds), Women in the Military and in Armed Conflict (Springer Science and Business Media, 2008)
• Carol Cohn, "Wars, Wimps, and Women: Talking Gender and Thinking War," in Gendering War Talk, eds. Miriam Cooke and Angela Woollacott, Gendering War Talk (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993)
• Carol Cohn (ed.) Women and Wars: Contested Histories, Uncertain Futures (Cambridge, UK: Polity, 2012)
• Robert Draper, "The Military's Rough Justice on Sexual Assault" New York Times Magazine (Nov. 26, 2014)
• Paige Whaley Eager, Waging Gendered Wars: US Military Women in Afghanistan and Iraq (Farnham: Ashgate, 2014)
• Jean Bethke Elshtain, "'Shooting' at the Wrong Target: A Response to Van Creveld," Millennium 29, 2 (2000): 443-48
• Cynthia Enloe, Maneuvers: The International Politics of Militarizing Women's Lives (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000)
• Joshua Goldstein, War and Gender: How Gender Shapes the War System and Vice Versa (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001)
• Martha Gravois, "Military Families in Germany, 1946-1986: Why They Came and Why They Stay," Parameters 16, 4 (Winter 1986): 57-9
• M.S. Herbert, Camouflage Isn't Only for Combat: Gender, Sexuality, and Women in the Military (New York: NYU Press, 1998)
• Maria Höhn and Seungsook Moon, Over There: Living with the US Military Empire from World War Two to the Present (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010)
• Chalmers Johnson, Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire (Boston: Little, Brown, 2000)
• Kristy Kamarck, Women in Combat: Issues for Congress (Congressional Research Service Report 7- 5700) Aug. 18, 2015
• Elizabeth Kier, "Homosexuals in the US Military: Open Integration and Combat Effectiveness," International Security 23, 2 (Fall 1998): 5-39
• Sarah Kovner, Occupying Power: Sex Workers and Servicemen in Postwar Japan (Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2002) [e-book]
• Catherine Lutz, Homefront: A Military City and the American Twentieth Century (Boston: Beacon Press, 2001) [e-book]
• Catherine Lutz, The Bases of Empire: The Global Struggle against US Military Posts (London: Pluto Press, 2009) [e-book]
• Megan MacKenzie, Beyond the Band of Brothers: The US Military and the Myth that Women Can't Fight (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015)
• Megan MacKenzie, "Let Women Fight: Ending the US Military's Female Combat Ban," Foreign Affairs, Jan. 23, 2013
• Kenneth MacLeish, Making War at Fort Hood: Life and Uncertainty in a Military Community (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015)
• Elizabeth Mesok, "Affective Technologies of War: US Female Counterinsurgents and the Performances of Gendered Labor," Radical History Review 123 (Oct. 2015): 60-87
• Katherine H.S. Moon, Sex with Allies: Military Prostitution in US-Korea Relations (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997)
• Elizabeth M. Norman, Women at War: The Story of Fifty Military Nurses Who Served in Vietnam (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1990) [e-book]
• Meghan O'Malley, "All is Not Fair in Love and War: An Exploration of the Military Masculinity Myth," DePaul Journal of Women, Gender and the Law 5, 1 (Fall 2015): 1-40
• Jennifer Mittelstadt, The Rise of the Military Welfare State (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015)
• Mary Louise Roberts, What Soldiers Do: Sex and the American GI in World War II France, 1944-1946 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013)
• Bernard Rosler, I Want You! The Evolution of the All-Volunteer Force (RAND, 2006) [e-book]
• Laura Sjoberg, Gender, War, and Conflict (Cambridge: Polity, 2014)
• Laura Sjoberg and Sandra Via (eds), Gender, War and Militarism (Praeger Security International, 2010) [e-book]
• Heather Marie Stur, Beyond Combat: Women and Gender in the Vietnam War Era (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011)
• Charissa Threat, Nursing Civil Rights: Gender and Race in the Army Nurse Corps (Champaign: University Press, 2015) [e-book]
• US Commission on Civil Rights, Sexual Assault in the Military. Statutory Enforcement Report. Washington, DC, September 2013
• Martin van Creveld, "The Great Illusion: Women in the Military," Millennium 29, 2 (2000): 429-42
• Kara Dixon Vuic, Officer, Nurse, Woman: The Army Nurse Corps in the Vietnam War (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010)
• Julia Welland, "Gender and 'Population-Centric' Counterinsurgency in Afghanistan," in Simona Sharoni et al, Handbook on Gender and War (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2016) [e-book]
• Laurie Lee Weinstein and Christie C. White, Wives and Warriors: Women and the Military in the United States and Canada (Greenwood Publishing, 1997)
• James E. Wise and Scott Brown, Women at War: Iraq, Afghanistan and Other Conflicts (Annapolis, MD: Naval Institution Press, 2011) [e-book]
• John Willoughby, Remaking the Conquering Heroes: The Postwar American Occupation of Germany (New York: St Martin's, 2001) [e-book]
• Susan Zeiger, Entangling Alliances: Foreign War Brides and American Soldiers in the Twentieth Century (New York: NYU Press) [e-book]