Amy J Rutenberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 4790065 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amy J Rutenberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amy J |
| FAMILY NAME | Rutenberg |
| SIGNATURE | RUTENBERG A J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa |
| ORCID | 0009-0005-7897-8230 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Rough Draft
This book argues that policy makers’ idealized conceptions of middle-class masculinity directly affected who they targeted for conscription during the Cold War. Along with much of the American population, federal officials, including those within the Selective Service System, believed college educated men could better protect the nation from the threat of communism as civilians than as soldiers. The availability of deferments for these men grew r…
Rough Draft
Rough Draft draws the curtain on the race and class inequities of the Selective Service during the Vietnam War. Amy J. Rutenberg argues that policy makers' idealized conceptions of Cold War middle-class masculinity directly affected whom they targeted for conscription and also for deferment. Federal officials believed that college educated men could protect the nation from the threat of communism more effectively as civilians than as soldiers. Th…
Women's Antiwar Diplomacy during the Vietnam War Era
In May 1965, while attending an international congress in Moscow, Lorraine Gordon and Mary Clarke received an impromptu invitation from North Vietnamese delegates to visit Hanoi. The two American members of Women Strike for Peace jumped at the opportunity, despite its illegal nature. As a result of their spontaneity, Gordon and Clarke became the first American activists to travel to the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV) following the initiatio…
Drafting for domesticity
This article uses military manpower policy to illustrate the pervasiveness and unintended consequences of militarisation in the United States between 1948 and 1965. Conscription fuelled America's Cold War military. Over time, however, the Selective Service widened its deferment criteria to include more students and family men, purposefully guiding them into civilian occupations and domestic arrangements it defined as in the national interest. Thi…
Adam R. Nelson, The Elusive Ideal
Tufts University's Involvement in Public School Desegregation in Boston, Massachusetts, 1960-1980
Women's Antiwar Diplomacy during the Vietnam War Era
In May 1965, while attending an international congress in Moscow, Lorraine Gordon and Mary Clarke received an impromptu invitation from North Vietnamese delegates to visit Hanoi. The two American members of Women Strike for Peace jumped at the opportunity, despite its illegal nature. As a result of their spontaneity, Gordon and Clarke became the first American activists to travel to the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV) following the initiatio…
Tufts University's Involvement in Public School Desegregation in Boston, Massachusetts, 1960-1980
Tufts University's Involvement in Public School Desegregation in Boston, Massachusetts, 1960-1980
Adam R. Nelson, The Elusive Ideal
Drafting for domesticity
This article uses military manpower policy to illustrate the pervasiveness and unintended consequences of militarisation in the United States between 1948 and 1965. Conscription fuelled America's Cold War military. Over time, however, the Selective Service widened its deferment criteria to include more students and family men, purposefully guiding them into civilian occupations and domestic arrangements it defined as in the national interest. Thi…
Women's Antiwar Diplomacy during the Vietnam War Era
In May 1965, while attending an international congress in Moscow, Lorraine Gordon and Mary Clarke received an impromptu invitation from North Vietnamese delegates to visit Hanoi. The two American members of Women Strike for Peace jumped at the opportunity, despite its illegal nature. As a result of their spontaneity, Gordon and Clarke became the first American activists to travel to the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV) following the initiatio…
Rough Draft
This book argues that policy makers’ idealized conceptions of middle-class masculinity directly affected who they targeted for conscription during the Cold War. Along with much of the American population, federal officials, including those within the Selective Service System, believed college educated men could better protect the nation from the threat of communism as civilians than as soldiers. The availability of deferments for these men grew r…
Rough Draft
Rough Draft draws the curtain on the race and class inequities of the Selective Service during the Vietnam War. Amy J. Rutenberg argues that policy makers' idealized conceptions of Cold War middle-class masculinity directly affected whom they targeted for conscription and also for deferment. Federal officials believed that college educated men could protect the nation from the threat of communism more effectively as civilians than as soldiers. Th…
Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · History (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Public Administration (3 works) · Vietnam War (3 works) · American history (2 works) · Anthropology (2 works)