Wendy M Christensen
Biographic Data
| ID | 136708 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wendy M Christensen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wendy M |
| FAMILY NAME | Christensen |
| SIGNATURE | CHRISTENSEN W M |
| AFFILIATIONS | William Paterson University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Breaking the Binaries in Security Studies: A Gendered Analysis of Women in Combat
After the Rise and Stall of American Feminism: Taking Back a Revolution
The politics of foot powder: Depoliticizing motherhood during the US War on Terrorism
This article uses the example of mothers of service members during the US War on Terrorism (October 2001 to present) to show how gendered maternal ideology can disempower women to participate in the political process. When their children join the Armed Forces, mothers seek out online support groups where their experiences of war are validated by other mothers. In these groups, they draw on their maternal relationship to war to define what “suppor…
Digital Sociologies
Recruiting through mothers: You made them strong, we'll make them Army Strong
This article uses narrative analysis to examine how the military relies on gender inequality to recruit new enlistees through parents, specifically focusing on mothers. Recently, the military shifted strategy to consider parents a critical gateway to enlisting new recruits. Using a network of websites aimed at convincing mothers service is right for their children, military recruiters sell enlistment as an avenue where children become adults and …
Fighting for Peace: Veterans and Military Families in the Anti-Iraq War Movement
The black citizen-subject: Black single mothers in US military recruitment material
This article examines how the US military uses race inequalities to mobilize black single mothers for enlistment of their children in the Armed Forces. Through an analysis of military recruitment materials during the height of the US War on Terrorism, I demonstrate how the military disproportionately shows black single mothers going through a process of reacting to their child's enlistment (with fear and worry), welcoming the military institution…
Technological Boundaries: Defining the Personal and the Political in Military Mothers' Online Support Forms
A moderator of a Marine Moms support group describing the rules for participating Mothers throughout history have grappled with the meaning and practice of supporting the (predominantly male) troops.The U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have brought contemporary, local relevance to this historic concern as the American public struggles to understand what "supporting" the troops in an unpopular war means.This question is even more acute for milita…
Cowboy of the World? Gender Discourse and the Iraq War Debate
Cowboy of the World? Gender Discourse and the Iraq War Debate
Recruiting through mothers: You made them strong, we'll make them Army Strong
This article uses narrative analysis to examine how the military relies on gender inequality to recruit new enlistees through parents, specifically focusing on mothers. Recently, the military shifted strategy to consider parents a critical gateway to enlisting new recruits. Using a network of websites aimed at convincing mothers service is right for their children, military recruiters sell enlistment as an avenue where children become adults and …
The black citizen-subject: Black single mothers in US military recruitment material
This article examines how the US military uses race inequalities to mobilize black single mothers for enlistment of their children in the Armed Forces. Through an analysis of military recruitment materials during the height of the US War on Terrorism, I demonstrate how the military disproportionately shows black single mothers going through a process of reacting to their child's enlistment (with fear and worry), welcoming the military institution…
Technological Boundaries: Defining the Personal and the Political in Military Mothers' Online Support Forms
A moderator of a Marine Moms support group describing the rules for participating Mothers throughout history have grappled with the meaning and practice of supporting the (predominantly male) troops.The U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have brought contemporary, local relevance to this historic concern as the American public struggles to understand what "supporting" the troops in an unpopular war means.This question is even more acute for milita…
Breaking the Binaries in Security Studies: A Gendered Analysis of Women in Combat
Cowboy of the World? Gender Discourse and the Iraq War Debate
Technological Boundaries: Defining the Personal and the Political in Military Mothers' Online Support Forms
A moderator of a Marine Moms support group describing the rules for participating Mothers throughout history have grappled with the meaning and practice of supporting the (predominantly male) troops.The U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have brought contemporary, local relevance to this historic concern as the American public struggles to understand what "supporting" the troops in an unpopular war means.This question is even more acute for milita…
Recruiting through mothers: You made them strong, we'll make them Army Strong
This article uses narrative analysis to examine how the military relies on gender inequality to recruit new enlistees through parents, specifically focusing on mothers. Recently, the military shifted strategy to consider parents a critical gateway to enlisting new recruits. Using a network of websites aimed at convincing mothers service is right for their children, military recruiters sell enlistment as an avenue where children become adults and …
Fighting for Peace: Veterans and Military Families in the Anti-Iraq War Movement
The black citizen-subject: Black single mothers in US military recruitment material
This article examines how the US military uses race inequalities to mobilize black single mothers for enlistment of their children in the Armed Forces. Through an analysis of military recruitment materials during the height of the US War on Terrorism, I demonstrate how the military disproportionately shows black single mothers going through a process of reacting to their child's enlistment (with fear and worry), welcoming the military institution…
The politics of foot powder: Depoliticizing motherhood during the US War on Terrorism
This article uses the example of mothers of service members during the US War on Terrorism (October 2001 to present) to show how gendered maternal ideology can disempower women to participate in the political process. When their children join the Armed Forces, mothers seek out online support groups where their experiences of war are validated by other mothers. In these groups, they draw on their maternal relationship to war to define what “suppor…
Digital Sociologies
After the Rise and Stall of American Feminism: Taking Back a Revolution
Breaking the Binaries in Security Studies: A Gendered Analysis of Women in Combat
Political science (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Gender, Security, and Conflict (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Criminology (4 works) · Politics (4 works)