Paper Title
Roundtable: Products of an Interdisciplinary Classroom (Feminist Thought in Practice)
Location
Room 223, DiGiorgio Campus Center (DiGs)
Keywords
War, Global, Women, Race
Start Date
2-4-2016 3:30 PM
End Date
2-4-2016 4:45 PM
Abstract
January 1st, 2016 marks the deadline issued by the United States Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter when he ended the ban on women in combat jobs throughout the five branches of service. While we celebrate intersectionality in the new millennium, the U.S. military will continue its tradition of being on the front lines for the advancement of equality and social justice through the erasure of borders and boundaries. Years before the Civil Rights Movement began, the U.S. military abolished its segregation of service members based on race. In the 1976, it admitted women to all federal military academies, where it grooms its leaders. In 2011, it ended the discriminatory Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy that prevented the open and honorable service of lesbians and gay men. This year policies are being revamped to integrate transgender service members into all branches of the military, so we can expect the U.S. military to continue leading the way in the national fight for equality and social justice. I assert that the military embodies the spirit of intersectionality with its radical encouragement of diversity in policy and recruitment; however, its hypermasculine environment and high rates of violence against women remain areas that social policy has left untouched. I invite us to explore ways that the military works to eliminate these as it enters into the new battlefield of cyber threats and terrorism, a battlefield without borders. Could the works of Gloria Anzaldua and Donna Harraway provide direction?
“How the East Took Over the West: Hippie Culture, Eastern Modernity and the Queer Movement”
Brenn Dowdy, East Tennessee State University
“U.S. Military Policy as Successful Application of Intersectional Theories (Oh, My!)”
Norma J. Honaker, East Tennessee State University
“Women and Minority Groups in Academic Science: Examining and Responding to Oppression”
Emily M. Hartsfield, East Tennessee State University
“Global Underrepresentation: Intersectionality in Politics”
Hannah L. Olinger, East Tennessee State University
Roundtable: Products of an Interdisciplinary Classroom (Feminist Thought in Practice)
Room 223, DiGiorgio Campus Center (DiGs)
January 1st, 2016 marks the deadline issued by the United States Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter when he ended the ban on women in combat jobs throughout the five branches of service. While we celebrate intersectionality in the new millennium, the U.S. military will continue its tradition of being on the front lines for the advancement of equality and social justice through the erasure of borders and boundaries. Years before the Civil Rights Movement began, the U.S. military abolished its segregation of service members based on race. In the 1976, it admitted women to all federal military academies, where it grooms its leaders. In 2011, it ended the discriminatory Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy that prevented the open and honorable service of lesbians and gay men. This year policies are being revamped to integrate transgender service members into all branches of the military, so we can expect the U.S. military to continue leading the way in the national fight for equality and social justice. I assert that the military embodies the spirit of intersectionality with its radical encouragement of diversity in policy and recruitment; however, its hypermasculine environment and high rates of violence against women remain areas that social policy has left untouched. I invite us to explore ways that the military works to eliminate these as it enters into the new battlefield of cyber threats and terrorism, a battlefield without borders. Could the works of Gloria Anzaldua and Donna Harraway provide direction?
“How the East Took Over the West: Hippie Culture, Eastern Modernity and the Queer Movement”
Brenn Dowdy, East Tennessee State University
“U.S. Military Policy as Successful Application of Intersectional Theories (Oh, My!)”
Norma J. Honaker, East Tennessee State University
“Women and Minority Groups in Academic Science: Examining and Responding to Oppression”
Emily M. Hartsfield, East Tennessee State University
“Global Underrepresentation: Intersectionality in Politics”
Hannah L. Olinger, East Tennessee State University
