Gender: How Gender Shapes The War System And Vice Versa

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“War and Gender: How Gender Shapes the War System and Vice Versa” is a book written by Joshua S. Goldstein in 2001. Separation of gender roles is more than considerable issue for modern society. On this basis, with no doubts, understanding of gender roles can not be more important than in time of war. Considering numerous researches, continuous and contentious debates author tried to reveal major factors concerning how gender roles influence war and vice versa. Joshua Goldstein presents lively and concrete assessment of the topic due to the nearly absolute women exclusion through the years of history and within different cultures.
The first chapter “A puzzle: the cross–cultural consistency of gender roles in war” provides with a general information

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