Deborah Cohler
Biographic Data
| ID | 351877 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Deborah Cohler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Deborah |
| FAMILY NAME | Cohler |
| SIGNATURE | COHLER D |
| AFFILIATIONS | San Francisco State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Starch
An exhibit at the Museum of the American Military Family provides a springboard from which to investigate spray starch. The exhibit elicits recollections of military ironing as a masculine labor of precision, rather than unskilled feminized work. A starched and ironed uniform signals military conformity and discipline; the illusion of race- and gender-blind meritocracy; and sanitized, honorable warriors. Braiding together the military roots of th…
ConsumingArmy Wives
This article analyses Lifetime Television’s scripted drama Army Wives with related cultural texts, social media platforms, and marketing campaigns. Through a refashioning of ‘domestic’ concerns, these texts generate a double narrative which overtly embraces a welfarist model of nationalist sacrifice and reward, while simultaneously promoting individualist neoliberal narratives of self-reliance that underpin defunding state programmes, both milita…
Sapphism and Sedition
Sapphism and Sedition:Producing Female Homosexuality in Great War Britain Deborah Cohler (bio) In early 1918, as British military forces were in retreat and the country expected humiliating military defeat at the hands of Germany, two events simultaneously raised rhetorical concern over female sexual representation in Britain. In one instance, a novel by pacifist Rose Allatini was quickly and relatively quietly banned under the Defense of the Rea…
Keeping the Home Front Burning
Keeping the Home Front Burning
ConsumingArmy Wives
This article analyses Lifetime Television’s scripted drama Army Wives with related cultural texts, social media platforms, and marketing campaigns. Through a refashioning of ‘domestic’ concerns, these texts generate a double narrative which overtly embraces a welfarist model of nationalist sacrifice and reward, while simultaneously promoting individualist neoliberal narratives of self-reliance that underpin defunding state programmes, both milita…
Keeping the Home Front Burning
Sapphism and Sedition
Sapphism and Sedition:Producing Female Homosexuality in Great War Britain Deborah Cohler (bio) In early 1918, as British military forces were in retreat and the country expected humiliating military defeat at the hands of Germany, two events simultaneously raised rhetorical concern over female sexual representation in Britain. In one instance, a novel by pacifist Rose Allatini was quickly and relatively quietly banned under the Defense of the Rea…
ConsumingArmy Wives
This article analyses Lifetime Television’s scripted drama Army Wives with related cultural texts, social media platforms, and marketing campaigns. Through a refashioning of ‘domestic’ concerns, these texts generate a double narrative which overtly embraces a welfarist model of nationalist sacrifice and reward, while simultaneously promoting individualist neoliberal narratives of self-reliance that underpin defunding state programmes, both milita…
Starch
An exhibit at the Museum of the American Military Family provides a springboard from which to investigate spray starch. The exhibit elicits recollections of military ironing as a masculine labor of precision, rather than unskilled feminized work. A starched and ironed uniform signals military conformity and discipline; the illusion of race- and gender-blind meritocracy; and sanitized, honorable warriors. Braiding together the military roots of th…
Sociology (4 works) · Gender, Security, and Conflict (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Nationalism (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Archaeology (1 work)