Soldier Woman. Woman in the Arms of the Mars

• Authors: Jarosław J. Piątek

Abstracts

EN

A term „violence”, despite transformations of the meanings, has always been connected with relations between genders, and as such, what it means in a given society to be a woman and a man and which economic, social and psychological relations have been assigned to these categories. At least since the 18th century, unequal share of the power between men and women has been justified with, among others, a different share of “passion” and different potential of violence. A real power ready to use violence should be focused on the men side while a tasks of women should be neutralizing men’s readiness to use violence, achieved by subjecting themselves to men. For thousands of years military battles have been almost exclusively a man’s privilege. Even 100 years ago, women did not have a right to vote even in western countries with the longest democratic traditions. Today, giving a woman the highest office in a state is not unusual. So can we talk about a fall of the patriarchy and replacing men by women even in such man fields as war and military battles?

Keywords

EN

violence; gender; soldier woman; military service

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek
• Journal: Reality of Politics
• Year: 2013
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 165-177

Dates

published

2013

Contributors

author

Jarosław J. Piątek

• University of Szczecin

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Identifiers

DOI

10.15804/rop201310

Biblioteka Nauki

2032313