Lorraine Bayard De Volo
Biographic Data
| ID | 287005 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lorraine Bayard De Volo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lorraine Bayard |
| FAMILY NAME | De Volo |
| SIGNATURE | DE VOLO L B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kansas |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 72 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Cuba’s Missile Crisis and the Logic of National Martyrdom
Women’s Empowerment and Disempowerment in Brazil: The Rise and Fall of President Dilma Rousseff
Masculinity and the Cuban Missile Crisis: Gender as pre-emptive deterrent
Sixty years after the Cuban Missile Crisis, academics and policy-makers still pore over the details for lessons in foreign policy. In those details, participants and observers regularly remark on the gendered dynamics of the crisis. Despite such observations and the vastness of the missile crisis literature, there remains little explicitly gendered research. This study takes up the feminist IR question ‘What work is gender doing here?’ by compari…
B onnie A. L ucero . Revolutionary Masculinity and Racial Inequality: Gendering War and Politics in Cuba
Tactical Negrificación and White Femininity
At the ideological heart of the Cuban Revolution is the commitment to liberation from oppressive systems at home and abroad. From early on, as it supported anti-imperialist struggles, revolutionary Cuba also officially condemned racism and sexism. However, the state's attention to racism and sexism has fluctuated-it has been full-throated at times, silent at others. This essay examines gender and race in Cuba's international liberatory efforts wh…
Women and the Cuban Insurrection: How Gender Shaped Castro's Victory
Using gender analysis and focusing on previously unexamined testimonies of women rebels, political scientist Lorraine Bayard de Volo shatters the prevailing masculine narrative of the Cuban Revolution. Contrary to the Cuban War story's mythology of an insurrection single-handedly won by bearded guerrillas, Bayard de Volo shows that revolutions are not won and lost only by bullets and battlefield heroics. Focusing on women's multiple forms of part…
(Ab)usos y costumbres: Mujeres Indígenas Confrontando La Violencia De Género Y Resignificando El Poder
Desarrollamos una reflexión para categorizar la violencia de género desde el Continuum de la Violencia y la resignificación del poder en las mujeres indígenas. Partimos de la experiencia de mujeres de la Sierra Norte de Puebla, quienes confrontan el sistema imperante en una manera creativa y colectivamente para desnaturalizar/erradicar la violencia de género en sus comunidades
Unmanned? Gender Recalibrations and the Rise of Drone Warfare
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)—drones—are increasingly prominent in U.S. military strategy (Shaw and Akhter 2012). The U.S. Air Force (USAF) trains more UAV pilots than fighter and bomber pilots combined (Parsons 2012). A 2011 Defense Department analysis predicted “a force made up almost entirely of [UAVs] by the middle of this century” (U.S. Department of Defense 2011). Some argue that drones and other robotics so alter the character and conduc…
I Wish All the Ladies Were Holes in the Road: The US Air Force Academy and the Gendered Continuum of Violence
In 2003, sixty-one women cadets reported sexual assault at the US Air Force Academy, prompting intense media scrutiny and congressional inquiry. The literature on these assaults draws primarily from media and military reports and surveys, with little attention to the daily, lived experience comprising the problematic gender climate. To address this gap, we employ retrospective participant observation spanning the 2003 crisis to explore the everyd…
A Revolution in the Binary? Gender and the Oxymoron of Revolutionary War in Cuba and Nicaragua
This study addresses a gap in the literature on gender and war by focusing on revolutions in smaller states. I examine how individuals, revolutionary societies, and other states were engaged, marginalized, and defied through certain gendered logics, broadening our understanding of wars and security events beyond those of the global military powers. The cases of Cuba and Nicaragua do not exhibit the masculine logic of superpowers: these smaller na…
Heroines With Friends in High Places: Cuba’s Damas de Blanco
Women and War in Latin America, 1950–2000
War is broadly and historically considered to be the most masculine of domains, and histories of war tend to reflect this conception. As the historian's lens adjusts to focus on women and war, it expands the scope through which to study war and we engage more closely with categories of people not traditionally viewed as central to war stories: mothers of soldiers, prostitutes, rape victims. Scholarship on war, even when it includes women, tends t…
The U.S. Women's Movement in Global Perspective
The U.S. Women's Movement in Global Perspective. Edited by Lee Ann Banaszak. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2005. 288p. $72.00 cloth, $27.95 paper. This pathbreaking edited volume combines a classic article with 10 original essays to present a comparative examination of the women's movement. As the title indicates, analyses largely revolve around the U.S. case, with comparison carried out over time or in relation to cases in other countries.…
Introduction: Cultural Practices in the Making of Oppositional Politics
The Nonmaterial Long-Term Benefits of Collective Action: Empowerment and Social Capital in a Nicaraguan Women's Organization
Studies of social movements tend to understand the benefits of collective action as the end products described in organizations' publicly stated goals, for example, higher wages, city services, and legislative reform. Although rational choice theory has tradi tionally understood such benefits in material terms, some rational choice models have inferred nonmaterial selective benefits as motivators in political participation. These benefits have be…
Feminists Question Revolution
these books, we have two scholars examining the relationship between feminism and revolution through cases in Latin America. In Feminism and the Legacy of Revolution, Karen Kampwirth compares Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Chiapas-and in the process makes important contributions to both theory and our understandings of the cases themselves. In this exceptionally well-written book, Kampwirth asks why, in all three cases, many women separated from the…
Human Rights in Cuba, El Salvador, and Nicaragua: A Sociological Perspective on Human Rights Abuse
From the Inside Out: Ethnographic Methods in Political Research
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Mobilizing Mothers for War: Cross-National Framing Strategies in Nicaragua’s Contra War
Studies document that in wartime, states often employ maternal imagery and mobilize women as mothers.Yet we know relatively little about when and why states and their opposition do so. This study seeks to build theory for this phenomenon through frame analysis of the Nicaraguan Contra War. The author proposes that maternal framing, aimed at mothers as well as a broader national and international audience, benefits militaries in at least three way…
Analyzing Politics and Change in Women's Organizations
Research on women's political action too often passes over women's organizations that do not officially adopt a feminist ideology and do not explicitly set out to change gender power relations. Based on implicit notions that such women's organizations are nonpolitical (or less interesting), the research often supports a false dichotomy between feminist and nonfeminist organizations rather than illuminates women's common political ground. This stu…
Service and Surveillance: Infrapolitics at Work among Casino Cocktail Waitresses
Journal Article Service and Surveillance: Infrapolitics at Work among Casino Cocktail Waitresses Get access Lorraine Bayard de Volo Lorraine Bayard de Volo University of Kansas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society, Volume 10, Issue 3, Fall 2003, Pages 346–376, https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/jxg019 Published: 01 October 2003
The Mixed Blessings of War and Motherhood
Engendering Revolution: Explaining Women's Increased Participation in Guerrilla Movements
Engendering World Politics and Caribbean Studies
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
From the Inside Out: Ethnographic Methods in Political Research
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Unmanned? Gender Recalibrations and the Rise of Drone Warfare
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)—drones—are increasingly prominent in U.S. military strategy (Shaw and Akhter 2012). The U.S. Air Force (USAF) trains more UAV pilots than fighter and bomber pilots combined (Parsons 2012). A 2011 Defense Department analysis predicted “a force made up almost entirely of [UAVs] by the middle of this century” (U.S. Department of Defense 2011). Some argue that drones and other robotics so alter the character and conduc…
I Wish All the Ladies Were Holes in the Road: The US Air Force Academy and the Gendered Continuum of Violence
In 2003, sixty-one women cadets reported sexual assault at the US Air Force Academy, prompting intense media scrutiny and congressional inquiry. The literature on these assaults draws primarily from media and military reports and surveys, with little attention to the daily, lived experience comprising the problematic gender climate. To address this gap, we employ retrospective participant observation spanning the 2003 crisis to explore the everyd…
A Revolution in the Binary? Gender and the Oxymoron of Revolutionary War in Cuba and Nicaragua
This study addresses a gap in the literature on gender and war by focusing on revolutions in smaller states. I examine how individuals, revolutionary societies, and other states were engaged, marginalized, and defied through certain gendered logics, broadening our understanding of wars and security events beyond those of the global military powers. The cases of Cuba and Nicaragua do not exhibit the masculine logic of superpowers: these smaller na…
Service and Surveillance: Infrapolitics at Work among Casino Cocktail Waitresses
Journal Article Service and Surveillance: Infrapolitics at Work among Casino Cocktail Waitresses Get access Lorraine Bayard de Volo Lorraine Bayard de Volo University of Kansas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society, Volume 10, Issue 3, Fall 2003, Pages 346–376, https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/jxg019 Published: 01 October 2003
Mobilizing Mothers for War: Cross-National Framing Strategies in Nicaragua’s Contra War
Studies document that in wartime, states often employ maternal imagery and mobilize women as mothers.Yet we know relatively little about when and why states and their opposition do so. This study seeks to build theory for this phenomenon through frame analysis of the Nicaraguan Contra War. The author proposes that maternal framing, aimed at mothers as well as a broader national and international audience, benefits militaries in at least three way…
Analyzing Politics and Change in Women's Organizations
Research on women's political action too often passes over women's organizations that do not officially adopt a feminist ideology and do not explicitly set out to change gender power relations. Based on implicit notions that such women's organizations are nonpolitical (or less interesting), the research often supports a false dichotomy between feminist and nonfeminist organizations rather than illuminates women's common political ground. This stu…
Women’s Empowerment and Disempowerment in Brazil: The Rise and Fall of President Dilma Rousseff
The Nonmaterial Long-Term Benefits of Collective Action: Empowerment and Social Capital in a Nicaraguan Women's Organization
Studies of social movements tend to understand the benefits of collective action as the end products described in organizations' publicly stated goals, for example, higher wages, city services, and legislative reform. Although rational choice theory has tradi tionally understood such benefits in material terms, some rational choice models have inferred nonmaterial selective benefits as motivators in political participation. These benefits have be…
Masculinity and the Cuban Missile Crisis: Gender as pre-emptive deterrent
Sixty years after the Cuban Missile Crisis, academics and policy-makers still pore over the details for lessons in foreign policy. In those details, participants and observers regularly remark on the gendered dynamics of the crisis. Despite such observations and the vastness of the missile crisis literature, there remains little explicitly gendered research. This study takes up the feminist IR question ‘What work is gender doing here?’ by compari…
(Ab)usos y costumbres: Mujeres Indígenas Confrontando La Violencia De Género Y Resignificando El Poder
Desarrollamos una reflexión para categorizar la violencia de género desde el Continuum de la Violencia y la resignificación del poder en las mujeres indígenas. Partimos de la experiencia de mujeres de la Sierra Norte de Puebla, quienes confrontan el sistema imperante en una manera creativa y colectivamente para desnaturalizar/erradicar la violencia de género en sus comunidades
Introduction: Cultural Practices in the Making of Oppositional Politics
Engendering World Politics and Caribbean Studies
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Analyzing Politics and Change in Women's Organizations
Research on women's political action too often passes over women's organizations that do not officially adopt a feminist ideology and do not explicitly set out to change gender power relations. Based on implicit notions that such women's organizations are nonpolitical (or less interesting), the research often supports a false dichotomy between feminist and nonfeminist organizations rather than illuminates women's common political ground. This stu…
Service and Surveillance: Infrapolitics at Work among Casino Cocktail Waitresses
Journal Article Service and Surveillance: Infrapolitics at Work among Casino Cocktail Waitresses Get access Lorraine Bayard de Volo Lorraine Bayard de Volo University of Kansas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society, Volume 10, Issue 3, Fall 2003, Pages 346–376, https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/jxg019 Published: 01 October 2003
The Mixed Blessings of War and Motherhood
Engendering Revolution: Explaining Women's Increased Participation in Guerrilla Movements
From the Inside Out: Ethnographic Methods in Political Research
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Mobilizing Mothers for War: Cross-National Framing Strategies in Nicaragua’s Contra War
Studies document that in wartime, states often employ maternal imagery and mobilize women as mothers.Yet we know relatively little about when and why states and their opposition do so. This study seeks to build theory for this phenomenon through frame analysis of the Nicaraguan Contra War. The author proposes that maternal framing, aimed at mothers as well as a broader national and international audience, benefits militaries in at least three way…
Human Rights in Cuba, El Salvador, and Nicaragua: A Sociological Perspective on Human Rights Abuse
The Nonmaterial Long-Term Benefits of Collective Action: Empowerment and Social Capital in a Nicaraguan Women's Organization
Studies of social movements tend to understand the benefits of collective action as the end products described in organizations' publicly stated goals, for example, higher wages, city services, and legislative reform. Although rational choice theory has tradi tionally understood such benefits in material terms, some rational choice models have inferred nonmaterial selective benefits as motivators in political participation. These benefits have be…
Feminists Question Revolution
these books, we have two scholars examining the relationship between feminism and revolution through cases in Latin America. In Feminism and the Legacy of Revolution, Karen Kampwirth compares Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Chiapas-and in the process makes important contributions to both theory and our understandings of the cases themselves. In this exceptionally well-written book, Kampwirth asks why, in all three cases, many women separated from the…
The U.S. Women's Movement in Global Perspective
The U.S. Women's Movement in Global Perspective. Edited by Lee Ann Banaszak. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2005. 288p. $72.00 cloth, $27.95 paper. This pathbreaking edited volume combines a classic article with 10 original essays to present a comparative examination of the women's movement. As the title indicates, analyses largely revolve around the U.S. case, with comparison carried out over time or in relation to cases in other countries.…
Introduction: Cultural Practices in the Making of Oppositional Politics
Women and War in Latin America, 1950–2000
War is broadly and historically considered to be the most masculine of domains, and histories of war tend to reflect this conception. As the historian's lens adjusts to focus on women and war, it expands the scope through which to study war and we engage more closely with categories of people not traditionally viewed as central to war stories: mothers of soldiers, prostitutes, rape victims. Scholarship on war, even when it includes women, tends t…
Heroines With Friends in High Places: Cuba’s Damas de Blanco
A Revolution in the Binary? Gender and the Oxymoron of Revolutionary War in Cuba and Nicaragua
This study addresses a gap in the literature on gender and war by focusing on revolutions in smaller states. I examine how individuals, revolutionary societies, and other states were engaged, marginalized, and defied through certain gendered logics, broadening our understanding of wars and security events beyond those of the global military powers. The cases of Cuba and Nicaragua do not exhibit the masculine logic of superpowers: these smaller na…
I Wish All the Ladies Were Holes in the Road: The US Air Force Academy and the Gendered Continuum of Violence
In 2003, sixty-one women cadets reported sexual assault at the US Air Force Academy, prompting intense media scrutiny and congressional inquiry. The literature on these assaults draws primarily from media and military reports and surveys, with little attention to the daily, lived experience comprising the problematic gender climate. To address this gap, we employ retrospective participant observation spanning the 2003 crisis to explore the everyd…
Unmanned? Gender Recalibrations and the Rise of Drone Warfare
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)—drones—are increasingly prominent in U.S. military strategy (Shaw and Akhter 2012). The U.S. Air Force (USAF) trains more UAV pilots than fighter and bomber pilots combined (Parsons 2012). A 2011 Defense Department analysis predicted “a force made up almost entirely of [UAVs] by the middle of this century” (U.S. Department of Defense 2011). Some argue that drones and other robotics so alter the character and conduc…
(Ab)usos y costumbres: Mujeres Indígenas Confrontando La Violencia De Género Y Resignificando El Poder
Desarrollamos una reflexión para categorizar la violencia de género desde el Continuum de la Violencia y la resignificación del poder en las mujeres indígenas. Partimos de la experiencia de mujeres de la Sierra Norte de Puebla, quienes confrontan el sistema imperante en una manera creativa y colectivamente para desnaturalizar/erradicar la violencia de género en sus comunidades
Women and the Cuban Insurrection: How Gender Shaped Castro's Victory
Using gender analysis and focusing on previously unexamined testimonies of women rebels, political scientist Lorraine Bayard de Volo shatters the prevailing masculine narrative of the Cuban Revolution. Contrary to the Cuban War story's mythology of an insurrection single-handedly won by bearded guerrillas, Bayard de Volo shows that revolutions are not won and lost only by bullets and battlefield heroics. Focusing on women's multiple forms of part…
B onnie A. L ucero . Revolutionary Masculinity and Racial Inequality: Gendering War and Politics in Cuba
Tactical Negrificación and White Femininity
At the ideological heart of the Cuban Revolution is the commitment to liberation from oppressive systems at home and abroad. From early on, as it supported anti-imperialist struggles, revolutionary Cuba also officially condemned racism and sexism. However, the state's attention to racism and sexism has fluctuated-it has been full-throated at times, silent at others. This essay examines gender and race in Cuba's international liberatory efforts wh…
Women’s Empowerment and Disempowerment in Brazil: The Rise and Fall of President Dilma Rousseff
Masculinity and the Cuban Missile Crisis: Gender as pre-emptive deterrent
Sixty years after the Cuban Missile Crisis, academics and policy-makers still pore over the details for lessons in foreign policy. In those details, participants and observers regularly remark on the gendered dynamics of the crisis. Despite such observations and the vastness of the missile crisis literature, there remains little explicitly gendered research. This study takes up the feminist IR question ‘What work is gender doing here?’ by compari…
Cuba’s Missile Crisis and the Logic of National Martyrdom
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