WGST 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Human Security, Ethnocentrism, Military Professional Resources Inc.

• School: Texas A&M University
• Department: Women's &Gender Studies
• Course: WGST 200
• Professor: Tasha Dubriwny

Document Summary

Militarism is the term for the broad system of institutions, practices, values and cultures that take their meaning and value from war. The current sex tourism industry in thailand can be traced back to the. U. s. government decision to location rest and recreation services for its troops there during the vietnam war. Poverty draft refers to the targeted recruitment of low-income and minority youth for military service. Kirk identifies rape as a weapon of ware that is a strategic and systematic way of dishonoring and attaching enemy men. Nagel"s essay on sex and war explodes the ethno sexual dimensions of international conflicts, or those spaces/places where ethnicity and sexuality coincides in our understanding of military endeavors. The united states earned nearly billion in overseas sales of arms. As both nagel and kirk suggest, the military depends on a militarized version of masculinity that serves national interests and positions military exploits (including sexual exploits) as a passenger into manhood.