Product Description: Women can't fight. This assumption lies at the heart of the combat exclusion, a policy that was fiercely defended as essential to national security, despite evidence that women have been contributing to hostile operations now and throughout history...read more

Product Description: This research and policy book examines the role of women in the military and the overwhelming evidence to date that warranted repealing the combat exclusion policy. It explores the following questions: How can the success of women in the military serve as justification for its repeal? What will be the potential impact of repealing the policy on the recruitment, promotion and retention of women in the military? How will repealing the combat exclusion policy change the ways in which military men relate to military women? How can repealing the policy set women on the course toward full agency and representation as full citizens in American society at large? Not only will this book help in filling the gaps of the existing literature of public administration and public policy about women in the military but it will provide the personal insights of women who have served under the combat exclusion policy...read more

Product Description: [Read by Pam Ward] As she did so provocatively with military spouses in Army Wives, Tanya Biank gives us the inside story of women in today's military -- their professional and personal challenges from the combat zone to the home front...read more

Product Description: [Library Edition Audiobook CD in Vinyl case.][Read by Pam Ward] As she did so provocatively with military spouses in Army Wives, Tanya Biank gives us the inside story of women in today's military -- their professional and personal challenges from the combat zone to the home front...read more

Product Description: Women have been actively involved in the United States military for more than fifty years, but the ban on their participation in combat remains a hotly debated issue. In this provocative book Lorry M. Fenner, an active-duty Air Force intelligence officer, calls for opening all aspects of military service to women...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Offers excerpts from articles which discuss the pros and cons of women serving in the military, and traces the history of women in the armed forces since World War I

Looks at the history of women in the military in the United States.

Product Description: In the last twenty-five years the U.S. military has seen the abolition of women's separate corps, the appointment of women generals, and an unprecedented increase in the ratio of women to men. Also, women are now permitted to serve on combat planes and ships...read more

Chronicles the 1991 Tailhook affair involving the U.S. Navy and traces its effects on the role of women in combat, focusing on the struggle of women fighter pilots for equality with their male counterparts. 35,000 first printing. $25,000 ad/promo. Tour.

Presents recommendations on the deployment of women in combat positions, with the opinions of the commission members and supporting documents

Presents recommendations on the deployment of women in combat positions, with the opinions of the commission members and supporting documents