%0 Journal Article
%T Helena Carreiras, Gender and the Military. Women in the Armed Forces of Western Democracies, London: Routledge (Cass Military Studies), 2006, 262 pages.
%A Vincent Porteret
%J Journal of Power Institutions in Post-Soviet Societies
%D 2007
%I Centre d'Etudes et de Recherche sur les Soci¨¦t¨¦s et les Institutions Post-Sovi¨¦tiques
%X Helena Carreiras¡¯ book is a recent contribution to the study of what the author calls Women Military Participation (WMP). Far away from some militant works, it ¡°contends that gender does not have an epistemological or ontological primacy in explaining social reality (no more than other category of social analysis)¡± (p. 203).As a starting point, in a review of the main works about WMP the author makes some specifications regarding her object (concept and measurement, explanatory factors, analy...
%K Women in the Armed Forces
%K Western Democracies
%K Military Sociology
%U http://pipss.revues.org/843