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The Duty to Protect: Gender in the Swedish Practice of Conscription

In English

Författare

  • Annica Kronsell
  • Erika Svedberg

Summary, in English

In this article, we turn first to a brief discussion of feminist contributions in the field of security, defense, and collective identity, and then argue that Swedish nationalism is tied to a particular form of collective identity formation through the practice of conscription. Drawing on Elshtain's notions of 'just warriors' and 'beautiful souls', we go on to spell out how women, historically, have been situated within the discourse of militarism. Finally, we look at how the contribution of women to the military has been perceived and argued, and then point out how a small number of female soldiers may be instrumental in exposing a particular value system of gender, citizenship, and collective identity.



Demilitarization isn't any more automatic than militarization. Indeed, it may be a far stickier process because it goes against the grain of the feminine and masculine conventions and political strategies now prevalent in so many societies. (Enloe, 1993: 259)

Publiceringsår

2001

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

153-176

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Cooperation and Conflict

Volym

36

Issue

2

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

SAGE Publications

Ämne

  • Political Science

Nyckelord

  • military
  • Gender
  • conscription
  • feminism
  • Sweden
  • citizenship

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 0010-8367