Queering the Military

This book offers a systematic and detailed analysis of the integration of gay and lesbian personnel into state militaries, and the implications of this for feminist scholarship. The author argues that the integration of sexual minorities into the military is not inherently subversive of the military gender order but that this does not mean they have been successfully co-opted either. This is because attempts to integrate sexual minorities into the military gender order are unstable and open to contestation. This book will appeal to a wide interdisciplinary audience including feminist and critical IR, Critical Military Studies, sociology, anthropology, queer theory and sexuality studies.

Sarah Bulmer is a Lecturer of Politics in the Department of Politics at the University of Exeter, UK. She is very involved in the development of Critical Military Studies as an interdisciplinary field of study, and is a member of the Steering Committee for the journal Critical Military Studies. She is also co-editing (with Victoria Basham) a forthcoming book entitled Advances in Critical Military Studies.