Policing Sex and Marriage in the American Military: The Court-Martial and the Construction of Gender and Sexual Deviance, 1950-2000 Contributor(s): Wilson-Buford, Kellie (Author) |
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ISBN: 0803296851 ISBN-13: 9780803296855 Publisher: University of Nebraska Press OUR PRICE: $47.50 Product Type: Hardcover Published: November 2018 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Law | Taxation - History | Military - United States - Social Science | Sociology - Marriage & Family |
Dewey: 343.730 |
LCCN: 2017050526 |
Series: Studies in War, Society, and the Military |
Physical Information: 0.88" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (1.25 lbs) 342 pages |
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Publisher Description: The American military's public international strategy of Communist containment, systematic weapons build-ups, and military occupations across the globe depended heavily on its internal and often less visible strategy of controlling the lives and intimate relationships of its members. From 1950 to 2000, the military justice system, under the newly instituted Uniform Code of Military Justice, waged a legal assault against all forms of sexual deviance that supposedly threatened the moral fiber of the military community and the nation. Prosecution rates for crimes of sexual deviance more than quintupled in the last quarter of the twentieth century. |