Maya Eichler
Biographic Data
| ID | 3677241 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maya Eichler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maya |
| FAMILY NAME | Eichler |
| SIGNATURE | EICHLER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Mount Saint Vincent University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5951-8707 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 124 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Soldier first or loyal military wife? What women in dual-service relationships reveal about the contemporary gendering of militaries
Working in a space of contradictions
A qualitative study of the capabilities of family members of veterans living with operational stress injuries
Breaking Ranks
This paper examines posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among veterans through the lens of hegemonic military masculinity (e.g., emotional toughness, strength, courage) as the overarching social ecology of military life in which mental distress is experienced by service members. Three themes emerged from a focus group with medically released Canadian veteran men: (a) PTSD as a medically decided injury among male soldiers reporting mental distres…
The Politics of Treatment
There has been an upsurge in post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) research, but these efforts have not included trauma clinicians. Using a constructivist grounded research methodology, we examined clinicians’ views about military PTSD, their experiences in utilizing accepted interventions, and the personal impacts of this work. Our findings indicate that clinicians struggle with conceptualizations of PTSD, accepted treatments, and the requiremen…
Administrative tribunals and equity
This article examines Veterans Review and Appeal Board (VRAB) decisions on military sexual assault related claims for disability entitlements since fiscal year 2009‐2010. These decisions have had significantly lower favourability rates than the average, despite recent improvements. As the case of VRAB shows, administrative tribunals may not be well equipped to ensure equitable outcomes for all users, calling into question their effectiveness as i…
Can we really “forget” militarization? A conversation on Alison Howell’s martial politics
First paragraph: Alison Howell’s (2018) article “Forget ‘Militarization’: Race, Disability and the ‘Martial Politics’ of the Police and of the University” has already generated many rich conversations. With its bold critique of formulaic uses of the term “militarization,” and a call to observe the ways in which everyday life is shaped by martial politics, Howell's contribution especially gave pause to many of us who readily use the concept of mil…
The art of discomfort
Dialogue on war is difficult and uncomfortable, for both political and personal reasons. In this article, Maya Eichler, a feminist scholar of militaries and military conflict, and Jessica L. Wiebe, a female veteran artist, describe their experiences of co-writing and co-performing "The Weight We Share." Drawing inspiration from Sarah Bulmer and David Jackson's piece "You do not live in my skin", they share these reflections on their collaborative…
Operational Stress Injuries and the Mental Health and Well‐Being of Veteran Spouses
This article presents the results of a scoping review of literature focusing on the relationship between operational stress injuries (OSIs) in military veterans and spousal mental health and well‐being. Using elements of the family adjustment and adaptation response (FAAR) model as an organizing framework, the research reviewed focuses on the demands the OSIs place on the family system, as well as related capabilities and meanings, and how these …
Reproductions of global security
This article shows how private security households exist at the nexus of two foundational logics of contemporary warfare—militarism and neoliberalism. The celebration of neoliberalism and normalization of militarism allow the private security industry to draw upon the labor of eager contractors and their supportive spouses. This article develops a feminist analysis of the role of the private security household in global security assemblages. In w…
Unmaking militarized masculinity
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Taylor & Francis via the DOI in this record
Add Female Veterans and Stir? A Feminist Perspective on Gendering Veterans Research
This article examines how scholarship on veterans has begun to incorporate gender as a relevant category of research. Drawing on feminist theory, it identifies different approaches to gender within the field of veterans studies and suggests avenues for advancing this aspect of research. The vast majority of gender research on veterans treats gender as a descriptive category or variable through a focus on female veterans or gender differences. Thi…
Gender and Private Security in Global Politics
Engendering two solitudes? Media representations of women in combat in Quebec and the rest of Canada
This article brings gender into the two-solitudes debate in Canadian foreign and defence policy by analyzing English- and French-Canadian newspaper coverage of women in combat in Afghanistan. We argue that there are no "two solitudes"-no national divisions are apparent between Quebec and the rest of Canada (ROC) when it comes to media representations of women in combat. Our findings confirm what other scholars have recently argued, which is that …
Citizenship and the contracting out of military work
The emergence of private military and security companies (PMSCs) is one of the most important developments in warfare over the past two to three decades. Employing a critical feminist perspective, this paper argues that the privatization of military security is not so much about the weakening of the state's monopoly over legitimate force as it is about the transformation of how military work is organized and tied to citizenship, and by extension …
Women and combat in Canada
Gender and the privatization of security
The increasing reliance on private military and security companies (PMSCs) in contemporary military conflict marks a historic shift in the state’s organization of military violence. This transformation has gendered underpinnings and entails gender-specific outcomes, at the same time as it reveals a gendered continuum between public and private military and security organizations. As the US example illustrates, security privatization was facilitat…
Russia's Post-Communist Transformation
This article develops a gendered analysis of the Chechen wars (1994–6, 1999–present) in the context of Russia's post-communist transformation. I argue that the leadership used the first war to associate itself with a notion of militarized, ordered, patriotic Russian masculinity in juxtaposition to a notion of destabilizing, aggressive, criminal Chechen masculinity. Justification for the second war additionally relied on constructed differences be…
Unmaking militarized masculinity
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Taylor & Francis via the DOI in this record
Citizenship and the contracting out of military work
The emergence of private military and security companies (PMSCs) is one of the most important developments in warfare over the past two to three decades. Employing a critical feminist perspective, this paper argues that the privatization of military security is not so much about the weakening of the state's monopoly over legitimate force as it is about the transformation of how military work is organized and tied to citizenship, and by extension …
Can we really “forget” militarization? A conversation on Alison Howell’s martial politics
First paragraph: Alison Howell’s (2018) article “Forget ‘Militarization’: Race, Disability and the ‘Martial Politics’ of the Police and of the University” has already generated many rich conversations. With its bold critique of formulaic uses of the term “militarization,” and a call to observe the ways in which everyday life is shaped by martial politics, Howell's contribution especially gave pause to many of us who readily use the concept of mil…
Reproductions of global security
This article shows how private security households exist at the nexus of two foundational logics of contemporary warfare—militarism and neoliberalism. The celebration of neoliberalism and normalization of militarism allow the private security industry to draw upon the labor of eager contractors and their supportive spouses. This article develops a feminist analysis of the role of the private security household in global security assemblages. In w…
Add Female Veterans and Stir? A Feminist Perspective on Gendering Veterans Research
This article examines how scholarship on veterans has begun to incorporate gender as a relevant category of research. Drawing on feminist theory, it identifies different approaches to gender within the field of veterans studies and suggests avenues for advancing this aspect of research. The vast majority of gender research on veterans treats gender as a descriptive category or variable through a focus on female veterans or gender differences. Thi…
Russia's Post-Communist Transformation
This article develops a gendered analysis of the Chechen wars (1994–6, 1999–present) in the context of Russia's post-communist transformation. I argue that the leadership used the first war to associate itself with a notion of militarized, ordered, patriotic Russian masculinity in juxtaposition to a notion of destabilizing, aggressive, criminal Chechen masculinity. Justification for the second war additionally relied on constructed differences be…
The art of discomfort
Dialogue on war is difficult and uncomfortable, for both political and personal reasons. In this article, Maya Eichler, a feminist scholar of militaries and military conflict, and Jessica L. Wiebe, a female veteran artist, describe their experiences of co-writing and co-performing "The Weight We Share." Drawing inspiration from Sarah Bulmer and David Jackson's piece "You do not live in my skin", they share these reflections on their collaborative…
Gender and the privatization of security
The increasing reliance on private military and security companies (PMSCs) in contemporary military conflict marks a historic shift in the state’s organization of military violence. This transformation has gendered underpinnings and entails gender-specific outcomes, at the same time as it reveals a gendered continuum between public and private military and security organizations. As the US example illustrates, security privatization was facilitat…
Engendering two solitudes? Media representations of women in combat in Quebec and the rest of Canada
This article brings gender into the two-solitudes debate in Canadian foreign and defence policy by analyzing English- and French-Canadian newspaper coverage of women in combat in Afghanistan. We argue that there are no "two solitudes"-no national divisions are apparent between Quebec and the rest of Canada (ROC) when it comes to media representations of women in combat. Our findings confirm what other scholars have recently argued, which is that …
Administrative tribunals and equity
This article examines Veterans Review and Appeal Board (VRAB) decisions on military sexual assault related claims for disability entitlements since fiscal year 2009‐2010. These decisions have had significantly lower favourability rates than the average, despite recent improvements. As the case of VRAB shows, administrative tribunals may not be well equipped to ensure equitable outcomes for all users, calling into question their effectiveness as i…
Women and combat in Canada
Russia's Post-Communist Transformation
This article develops a gendered analysis of the Chechen wars (1994–6, 1999–present) in the context of Russia's post-communist transformation. I argue that the leadership used the first war to associate itself with a notion of militarized, ordered, patriotic Russian masculinity in juxtaposition to a notion of destabilizing, aggressive, criminal Chechen masculinity. Justification for the second war additionally relied on constructed differences be…
Women and combat in Canada
Gender and the privatization of security
The increasing reliance on private military and security companies (PMSCs) in contemporary military conflict marks a historic shift in the state’s organization of military violence. This transformation has gendered underpinnings and entails gender-specific outcomes, at the same time as it reveals a gendered continuum between public and private military and security organizations. As the US example illustrates, security privatization was facilitat…
Engendering two solitudes? Media representations of women in combat in Quebec and the rest of Canada
This article brings gender into the two-solitudes debate in Canadian foreign and defence policy by analyzing English- and French-Canadian newspaper coverage of women in combat in Afghanistan. We argue that there are no "two solitudes"-no national divisions are apparent between Quebec and the rest of Canada (ROC) when it comes to media representations of women in combat. Our findings confirm what other scholars have recently argued, which is that …
Citizenship and the contracting out of military work
The emergence of private military and security companies (PMSCs) is one of the most important developments in warfare over the past two to three decades. Employing a critical feminist perspective, this paper argues that the privatization of military security is not so much about the weakening of the state's monopoly over legitimate force as it is about the transformation of how military work is organized and tied to citizenship, and by extension …
Gender and Private Security in Global Politics
Unmaking militarized masculinity
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Taylor & Francis via the DOI in this record
Add Female Veterans and Stir? A Feminist Perspective on Gendering Veterans Research
This article examines how scholarship on veterans has begun to incorporate gender as a relevant category of research. Drawing on feminist theory, it identifies different approaches to gender within the field of veterans studies and suggests avenues for advancing this aspect of research. The vast majority of gender research on veterans treats gender as a descriptive category or variable through a focus on female veterans or gender differences. Thi…
Operational Stress Injuries and the Mental Health and Well‐Being of Veteran Spouses
This article presents the results of a scoping review of literature focusing on the relationship between operational stress injuries (OSIs) in military veterans and spousal mental health and well‐being. Using elements of the family adjustment and adaptation response (FAAR) model as an organizing framework, the research reviewed focuses on the demands the OSIs place on the family system, as well as related capabilities and meanings, and how these …
Reproductions of global security
This article shows how private security households exist at the nexus of two foundational logics of contemporary warfare—militarism and neoliberalism. The celebration of neoliberalism and normalization of militarism allow the private security industry to draw upon the labor of eager contractors and their supportive spouses. This article develops a feminist analysis of the role of the private security household in global security assemblages. In w…
Can we really “forget” militarization? A conversation on Alison Howell’s martial politics
First paragraph: Alison Howell’s (2018) article “Forget ‘Militarization’: Race, Disability and the ‘Martial Politics’ of the Police and of the University” has already generated many rich conversations. With its bold critique of formulaic uses of the term “militarization,” and a call to observe the ways in which everyday life is shaped by martial politics, Howell's contribution especially gave pause to many of us who readily use the concept of mil…
The art of discomfort
Dialogue on war is difficult and uncomfortable, for both political and personal reasons. In this article, Maya Eichler, a feminist scholar of militaries and military conflict, and Jessica L. Wiebe, a female veteran artist, describe their experiences of co-writing and co-performing "The Weight We Share." Drawing inspiration from Sarah Bulmer and David Jackson's piece "You do not live in my skin", they share these reflections on their collaborative…
The Politics of Treatment
There has been an upsurge in post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) research, but these efforts have not included trauma clinicians. Using a constructivist grounded research methodology, we examined clinicians’ views about military PTSD, their experiences in utilizing accepted interventions, and the personal impacts of this work. Our findings indicate that clinicians struggle with conceptualizations of PTSD, accepted treatments, and the requiremen…
Administrative tribunals and equity
This article examines Veterans Review and Appeal Board (VRAB) decisions on military sexual assault related claims for disability entitlements since fiscal year 2009‐2010. These decisions have had significantly lower favourability rates than the average, despite recent improvements. As the case of VRAB shows, administrative tribunals may not be well equipped to ensure equitable outcomes for all users, calling into question their effectiveness as i…
Breaking Ranks
This paper examines posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among veterans through the lens of hegemonic military masculinity (e.g., emotional toughness, strength, courage) as the overarching social ecology of military life in which mental distress is experienced by service members. Three themes emerged from a focus group with medically released Canadian veteran men: (a) PTSD as a medically decided injury among male soldiers reporting mental distres…
A qualitative study of the capabilities of family members of veterans living with operational stress injuries
Soldier first or loyal military wife? What women in dual-service relationships reveal about the contemporary gendering of militaries
Working in a space of contradictions
Political science (16 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Gender, Security, and Conflict (13 works) · Law (11 works) · Politics (11 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research (5 works)