Brenda L Moore
Biographic Data
| ID | 186937 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brenda L Moore |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brenda L |
| FAMILY NAME | Moore |
| SIGNATURE | MOORE B L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University at Buffalo, State University of New York |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0756-9921 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Commentary on: Military Institutions and Citizenship in Western Societies
This is a commentary on Morris Janowitz’s article, “Military Institutions and Citizenship in Western Societies,” published in February 1976, in Armed Forces & Society, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 185–204. In the article, Janowitz links sociopolitical changes to the rise and subsequent fall of mass popular Armies. Military service during the 19th century was an integral part of citizenship. However, in the 1960s, mass militaries based on compulsory service…
Her Cold War: Women in the U.S. Military 1945–1980 by Tanya L. Roth
Her Cold War is a historical analysis of structural changes in U.S. military gender laws after World War II. These changes began the process of integrating women into the services. The author, Tanya Roth, does a remarkable job contrasting U.S. gender norms during the war with those of subsequent years. She asserts that female military personnel during the war were satisfied with just being allowed to serve, albeit only temporarily. Equality durin…
Consistent Honor, Persistent Disadvantage: American Indian and Alaska Native Veteran Health in the National Survey of Veterans
Objective : To examine self-rated health and activities of daily living (ADLs) limitations among American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) veterans relative to white veterans. Methods : We use the 2010 National Survey of Veterans and limit the sample to veterans who identify as AI/AN or non-Hispanic white. We calculated descriptive statistics, confidence intervals, and used logistic regression. Results : AI/AN veterans are younger, have lower lev…
To Serve My Country, to Serve My Race: The Story of the Only African-American Wacs Stationed Overseas During World War II
I would have climbed up a mountain to get on the list [to serve overseas]. We were going to do our duty. Despite all the bad things that happened, America was our home. This is where I was born. It was where my mother and father were. There was a feeling of wanting to do your part. --Gladys Carter, member of the 6888th To Serve My Country, to Serve my Race is the story of the historic 6888th, the first United States Women's Army Corps unit compos…
Serving Our Country: Japanese American Women in the Military during World War II
Following the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor and America's declaration of war on Japan, the U.S. War Department allowed up to five hundred second-generation, or "Nisei," Japanese American women to enlist in the Women's Army Corps and, in smaller numbers, in the Army Medical Corps. Through in-depth interviews with surviving Nisei women who served, Brenda L. Moore provides fascinating firsthand accounts of their experiences. Interested primarily in sh…
Mothers of the Military: Support and Politics during Wartime
Introduction to Armed Forces & Society: Special Issue on Women in the Military
This Armed Forces & Society issue is on women in the contemporary armed forces in the United States and other nations to include the South African National Defense Force and the Australian Defense Force. This issue contains a collection of nine papers, each reviewing a current aspect of women serving in the military since the post–Vietnam War Era. There are also two review essays of Megan Mackenzie’s book, Beyond the Band of Brothers: The US Mili…
Duty, Honor, Country, Disparity: Race/Ethnic Differences in Health and Disability Among Male Veterans
Life-Course Perspectives on Military Service
Reflexivity: Potentially “dangerous liaisons”
Mastering Soldiers is an ethnographic study of an infantry battalion of the Israeli Defence Forces inwhich the author served for eight years. As an officer in the unit and a professional anthropologist,the author was ideally positioned for his role as participant observer. During the years he spent withhis unit he focused primarily on such notions as “conflict,” “the enemy,” and “soldiering” becausethey are, he argues, the key points of reference…
A time to reassess: The Intersection of Race and Class
The US Military is among the nation's largest employers. Since the 1970s, it has provided many women with training and employment opportunities that they have not been able to secure in the civilia
Taking Charge of Breast Cancer
The Propensity of Junior Enlisted Personnel to Remain in Today's Military
This study examines the effects of both economic and noneconomic factors on the propensity of junior enlisted (El-E4) personnel to remain in the military, using data from the Armed Forces 1996 Equal Opportunity Survey. Among the findings: (1) years of service, job satisfaction (as a whole), and pride in service are all highly correlated with self-reports of respondents' likelihood of remaining in service; (2) among junior enlisted personnel, Afri…
Perceptions of Equal Opportunity among Women and Minority Army Personnel
Equal opportunity (EO) is recognized by the Department of Defense (DoD) as being crucial to maintaining a high state of military readiness. In the last two and a half decades, a number of EO initiatives have been employed by the DoD and each of the military services in an effort to promote fair treatment of minorities and women. Social science literature suggests that the integration of racial minorities, particularly African American males, is a…
Equal opportunity in the U.S. Navy: Perceptions of active-duty African American women
To Serve My Country, to Serve My Race: The Story of the only African American WACs Stationed Overseas during World War II
To Serve My Country, To Serve My Race: The Story of the Only African American Wacs Stationed Overseas during World War II
would have climbed up a mountain to get on the list [to serve overseas]. We were going to do our duty. Despite all the bad things that happened, America was our home. This is where was born. It was where my mother and father were. There was a feeling of wanting to do your part. --Gladys Carter, member of the 6888th To Serve My Country, to Serve my Race is the story of the historic 6888th, the first United States Women's Army Corps unit composed o…
Black Soldiers in Jim Crow Texas 1899-1917
To Serve My Country, to Serve My Race: The Story of the Only African American WACs Stationed Overseas during World War II
African American Women in the U.S. Military
This article is a comparison of black women with women of different racial and ethnic backgrounds and black men in the U.S. military. Developmental analysis is used to examine historical trends and to hypothesize about the future of black women on active duty. Although there is considerable scholarly literature on minorities (particularly African-American men) and women in the armed forces, no systematic study of the participation of African-Amer…
The Propensity of Junior Enlisted Personnel to Remain in Today's Military
This study examines the effects of both economic and noneconomic factors on the propensity of junior enlisted (El-E4) personnel to remain in the military, using data from the Armed Forces 1996 Equal Opportunity Survey. Among the findings: (1) years of service, job satisfaction (as a whole), and pride in service are all highly correlated with self-reports of respondents' likelihood of remaining in service; (2) among junior enlisted personnel, Afri…
Duty, Honor, Country, Disparity: Race/Ethnic Differences in Health and Disability Among Male Veterans
African American Women in the U.S. Military
This article is a comparison of black women with women of different racial and ethnic backgrounds and black men in the U.S. military. Developmental analysis is used to examine historical trends and to hypothesize about the future of black women on active duty. Although there is considerable scholarly literature on minorities (particularly African-American men) and women in the armed forces, no systematic study of the participation of African-Amer…
Introduction to Armed Forces & Society: Special Issue on Women in the Military
This Armed Forces & Society issue is on women in the contemporary armed forces in the United States and other nations to include the South African National Defense Force and the Australian Defense Force. This issue contains a collection of nine papers, each reviewing a current aspect of women serving in the military since the post–Vietnam War Era. There are also two review essays of Megan Mackenzie’s book, Beyond the Band of Brothers: The US Mili…
Equal opportunity in the U.S. Navy: Perceptions of active-duty African American women
Consistent Honor, Persistent Disadvantage: American Indian and Alaska Native Veteran Health in the National Survey of Veterans
Objective : To examine self-rated health and activities of daily living (ADLs) limitations among American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) veterans relative to white veterans. Methods : We use the 2010 National Survey of Veterans and limit the sample to veterans who identify as AI/AN or non-Hispanic white. We calculated descriptive statistics, confidence intervals, and used logistic regression. Results : AI/AN veterans are younger, have lower lev…
Perceptions of Equal Opportunity among Women and Minority Army Personnel
Equal opportunity (EO) is recognized by the Department of Defense (DoD) as being crucial to maintaining a high state of military readiness. In the last two and a half decades, a number of EO initiatives have been employed by the DoD and each of the military services in an effort to promote fair treatment of minorities and women. Social science literature suggests that the integration of racial minorities, particularly African American males, is a…
Commentary on: Military Institutions and Citizenship in Western Societies
This is a commentary on Morris Janowitz’s article, “Military Institutions and Citizenship in Western Societies,” published in February 1976, in Armed Forces & Society, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 185–204. In the article, Janowitz links sociopolitical changes to the rise and subsequent fall of mass popular Armies. Military service during the 19th century was an integral part of citizenship. However, in the 1960s, mass militaries based on compulsory service…
African American Women in the U.S. Military
This article is a comparison of black women with women of different racial and ethnic backgrounds and black men in the U.S. military. Developmental analysis is used to examine historical trends and to hypothesize about the future of black women on active duty. Although there is considerable scholarly literature on minorities (particularly African-American men) and women in the armed forces, no systematic study of the participation of African-Amer…
Black Soldiers in Jim Crow Texas 1899-1917
To Serve My Country, to Serve My Race: The Story of the Only African American WACs Stationed Overseas during World War II
To Serve My Country, to Serve My Race: The Story of the only African American WACs Stationed Overseas during World War II
To Serve My Country, To Serve My Race: The Story of the Only African American Wacs Stationed Overseas during World War II
would have climbed up a mountain to get on the list [to serve overseas]. We were going to do our duty. Despite all the bad things that happened, America was our home. This is where was born. It was where my mother and father were. There was a feeling of wanting to do your part. --Gladys Carter, member of the 6888th To Serve My Country, to Serve my Race is the story of the historic 6888th, the first United States Women's Army Corps unit composed o…
Equal opportunity in the U.S. Navy: Perceptions of active-duty African American women
Perceptions of Equal Opportunity among Women and Minority Army Personnel
Equal opportunity (EO) is recognized by the Department of Defense (DoD) as being crucial to maintaining a high state of military readiness. In the last two and a half decades, a number of EO initiatives have been employed by the DoD and each of the military services in an effort to promote fair treatment of minorities and women. Social science literature suggests that the integration of racial minorities, particularly African American males, is a…
The Propensity of Junior Enlisted Personnel to Remain in Today's Military
This study examines the effects of both economic and noneconomic factors on the propensity of junior enlisted (El-E4) personnel to remain in the military, using data from the Armed Forces 1996 Equal Opportunity Survey. Among the findings: (1) years of service, job satisfaction (as a whole), and pride in service are all highly correlated with self-reports of respondents' likelihood of remaining in service; (2) among junior enlisted personnel, Afri…
Taking Charge of Breast Cancer
A time to reassess: The Intersection of Race and Class
The US Military is among the nation's largest employers. Since the 1970s, it has provided many women with training and employment opportunities that they have not been able to secure in the civilia
Reflexivity: Potentially “dangerous liaisons”
Mastering Soldiers is an ethnographic study of an infantry battalion of the Israeli Defence Forces inwhich the author served for eight years. As an officer in the unit and a professional anthropologist,the author was ideally positioned for his role as participant observer. During the years he spent withhis unit he focused primarily on such notions as “conflict,” “the enemy,” and “soldiering” becausethey are, he argues, the key points of reference…
Duty, Honor, Country, Disparity: Race/Ethnic Differences in Health and Disability Among Male Veterans
Life-Course Perspectives on Military Service
Introduction to Armed Forces & Society: Special Issue on Women in the Military
This Armed Forces & Society issue is on women in the contemporary armed forces in the United States and other nations to include the South African National Defense Force and the Australian Defense Force. This issue contains a collection of nine papers, each reviewing a current aspect of women serving in the military since the post–Vietnam War Era. There are also two review essays of Megan Mackenzie’s book, Beyond the Band of Brothers: The US Mili…
To Serve My Country, to Serve My Race: The Story of the Only African-American Wacs Stationed Overseas During World War II
I would have climbed up a mountain to get on the list [to serve overseas]. We were going to do our duty. Despite all the bad things that happened, America was our home. This is where I was born. It was where my mother and father were. There was a feeling of wanting to do your part. --Gladys Carter, member of the 6888th To Serve My Country, to Serve my Race is the story of the historic 6888th, the first United States Women's Army Corps unit compos…
Serving Our Country: Japanese American Women in the Military during World War II
Following the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor and America's declaration of war on Japan, the U.S. War Department allowed up to five hundred second-generation, or "Nisei," Japanese American women to enlist in the Women's Army Corps and, in smaller numbers, in the Army Medical Corps. Through in-depth interviews with surviving Nisei women who served, Brenda L. Moore provides fascinating firsthand accounts of their experiences. Interested primarily in sh…
Mothers of the Military: Support and Politics during Wartime
Consistent Honor, Persistent Disadvantage: American Indian and Alaska Native Veteran Health in the National Survey of Veterans
Objective : To examine self-rated health and activities of daily living (ADLs) limitations among American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) veterans relative to white veterans. Methods : We use the 2010 National Survey of Veterans and limit the sample to veterans who identify as AI/AN or non-Hispanic white. We calculated descriptive statistics, confidence intervals, and used logistic regression. Results : AI/AN veterans are younger, have lower lev…
Her Cold War: Women in the U.S. Military 1945–1980 by Tanya L. Roth
Her Cold War is a historical analysis of structural changes in U.S. military gender laws after World War II. These changes began the process of integrating women into the services. The author, Tanya Roth, does a remarkable job contrasting U.S. gender norms during the war with those of subsequent years. She asserts that female military personnel during the war were satisfied with just being allowed to serve, albeit only temporarily. Equality durin…
Commentary on: Military Institutions and Citizenship in Western Societies
This is a commentary on Morris Janowitz’s article, “Military Institutions and Citizenship in Western Societies,” published in February 1976, in Armed Forces & Society, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 185–204. In the article, Janowitz links sociopolitical changes to the rise and subsequent fall of mass popular Armies. Military service during the 19th century was an integral part of citizenship. However, in the 1960s, mass militaries based on compulsory service…
Sociology (17 works) · Political science (15 works) · Gender Studies (10 works) · Law (10 works) · History (6 works) · Military personnel (6 works) · Gender, Security, and Conflict (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Race, History, and American Society (5 works) · Active duty (4 works)