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The Women of Explosive Ordnance Disposal

Cyborg, Techno-Bodies, Situated Knowledge, and Vibrant Materiality in Military Cultures

April Cobos

The Women of Explosive Ordnance Disposal: Cyborg, Techno-Bodies, Situated Knowledge, and Vibrant Materiality in Military Cultures addresses the disparities between policy discourse and the lived experiences of women in the Explosive Ordnance Disposal community who these policies seek to regulate through a rhetorical framework. During the Global War on Terrorism, the changing contexts of war brought the community to the forefront of combat preceding the 2016 policy repeal restricting women’s service in combat, which positioned these women at a poignant moment in history. Their positioning also sheds light on the challenges twenty-first century scholars face in analyzing shifting gender roles in the workplace with policies advocating for gender equality, which often buries continued gendered ideologies and discourse. This book takes a mixed methods approach of qualitative and quantitative data from surveys, available government documents, and other cultural artifacts to create a more triangulated analysis. While this book is rooted in rhetorical analysis, its dynamic nature demands using an interdisciplinary approach that pulls from discourse analysis, political, historical, and military scholarship, and other humanities-based feminist scholarship.

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Lexington Books
Pages: 150 • Trim: 6¼ x 9½
978-1-66695-102-8 • Hardback • June 2024 • $105.00 • (£81.00)
978-1-66695-103-5 • eBook • May 2024 • $45.00 • (£35.00)
Subjects: Language Arts & Disciplines / Rhetoric, Social Science / Gender Studies, Law / Military

April Cobos is lecturer at Christopher Newport University.

Chapter 1: Cyborg, Techno Bodies and the Shifting Rhetorical Contexts of War

Chapter 2: Situated Knowledge and the Rhetorical Uncertainty of Institutional Policies

Chapter 3: Intentionality, Agency, and Authority in the Survey Responses of Women in EOD

Conclusion: Genderquakes, Definitional Ruptures, and Backlashes: The Push and Pull of Gender Equality in the Twenty-First Century American Military

“Cobos explores the changing roles of women in combat-connected positions in the military, highlighting how conceptions of gender and agency have evolved in the armed forces and larger American society. She draws from feminist theory, embodied rhetoric, cyborgization, and discourse analysis to present a complex picture of the women who dispose of explosive ordnance and the military in which they work.”


— Mark Blaauw-Hara, University of Toronto Mississauga


"A triumph of interdisciplinary feminist rhetorical scholarship! April Cobos’s astute analysis of the tension between the official Department of Defense public language of 'gender neutrality' and 'full integration' of women into combat and the situated knowledge and embodied experiences of military women serving in hypermasculinized Explosive Ordnance and Disposal (EOD) units supplements and extends the work of feminist scholars such as Cheryl Glenn, Jacqueline Jones Royster, Gesa Kirsch, Jessica Enoch, Jordynn Jack, and others and complicates the field’s understanding of 'agency and authority, institutional power, and marginalized rhetors.' This timely publication gives voice to servicewomen who do not consider themselves 'overtly feminist or purposefully radical' and yet kairotically seize upon discursive affordances and techno-bodies to work toward institutional and societal change."


— D. Alexis Hart, Allegheny College


The Women of Explosive Ordnance Disposal

Cyborg, Techno-Bodies, Situated Knowledge, and Vibrant Materiality in Military Cultures

Cover Image
Hardback
eBook
Summary
Summary
  • The Women of Explosive Ordnance Disposal: Cyborg, Techno-Bodies, Situated Knowledge, and Vibrant Materiality in Military Cultures addresses the disparities between policy discourse and the lived experiences of women in the Explosive Ordnance Disposal community who these policies seek to regulate through a rhetorical framework. During the Global War on Terrorism, the changing contexts of war brought the community to the forefront of combat preceding the 2016 policy repeal restricting women’s service in combat, which positioned these women at a poignant moment in history. Their positioning also sheds light on the challenges twenty-first century scholars face in analyzing shifting gender roles in the workplace with policies advocating for gender equality, which often buries continued gendered ideologies and discourse. This book takes a mixed methods approach of qualitative and quantitative data from surveys, available government documents, and other cultural artifacts to create a more triangulated analysis. While this book is rooted in rhetorical analysis, its dynamic nature demands using an interdisciplinary approach that pulls from discourse analysis, political, historical, and military scholarship, and other humanities-based feminist scholarship.

Details
Details
  • Lexington Books
    Pages: 150 • Trim: 6¼ x 9½
    978-1-66695-102-8 • Hardback • June 2024 • $105.00 • (£81.00)
    978-1-66695-103-5 • eBook • May 2024 • $45.00 • (£35.00)
    Subjects: Language Arts & Disciplines / Rhetoric, Social Science / Gender Studies, Law / Military
Author
Author
  • April Cobos is lecturer at Christopher Newport University.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents
  • Chapter 1: Cyborg, Techno Bodies and the Shifting Rhetorical Contexts of War

    Chapter 2: Situated Knowledge and the Rhetorical Uncertainty of Institutional Policies

    Chapter 3: Intentionality, Agency, and Authority in the Survey Responses of Women in EOD

    Conclusion: Genderquakes, Definitional Ruptures, and Backlashes: The Push and Pull of Gender Equality in the Twenty-First Century American Military

Reviews
Reviews
  • “Cobos explores the changing roles of women in combat-connected positions in the military, highlighting how conceptions of gender and agency have evolved in the armed forces and larger American society. She draws from feminist theory, embodied rhetoric, cyborgization, and discourse analysis to present a complex picture of the women who dispose of explosive ordnance and the military in which they work.”


    — Mark Blaauw-Hara, University of Toronto Mississauga


    "A triumph of interdisciplinary feminist rhetorical scholarship! April Cobos’s astute analysis of the tension between the official Department of Defense public language of 'gender neutrality' and 'full integration' of women into combat and the situated knowledge and embodied experiences of military women serving in hypermasculinized Explosive Ordnance and Disposal (EOD) units supplements and extends the work of feminist scholars such as Cheryl Glenn, Jacqueline Jones Royster, Gesa Kirsch, Jessica Enoch, Jordynn Jack, and others and complicates the field’s understanding of 'agency and authority, institutional power, and marginalized rhetors.' This timely publication gives voice to servicewomen who do not consider themselves 'overtly feminist or purposefully radical' and yet kairotically seize upon discursive affordances and techno-bodies to work toward institutional and societal change."


    — D. Alexis Hart, Allegheny College


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