Women's Studies 1022F/G Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Arms Industry, Masculinity

• School: Western University
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: Women's Studies 1022F/G
• Professor: Bipasha Baruah

Document Summary

Bananas, beaches, and bases- chapter 4: base women. A base laundress is most likely a civilian hired directly by the base command or indirectly by a private defense contractor. She develops her own thoughts about what the military personnel on this base are doing with their weaponry. People consider the us an empire because of the amount of military bases they have. They exercise control over many of the pacific and caribbean territories it had colonized at the end of the 19th century. Russian military has agreements with the government of syria and with some of the former. Soviet states to maintain its military bases for their territories. British empire has shrunk, closed many of their overseas bases, bases in germany expected to completely shut down by 2019. The bases that america has taken over in africa are gendered. Both men and women in uniform, doing contracting.