Der Einsatz westlicher Soldatinnen in Afghanistan – Positionierungen und Aushandlungsprozesse militärischer Geschlechterordnungen

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Schlüsselwörter: Gender, Militär, Afghanistan, Einsatz, Soldatin, Aufstandsbekämpfung

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Western Female Soldiers in Afghanistan – Positioning and Negotiating Military Gender Regimes.

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This article analyzes the positioning of German female soldiers in the  mission in Afghanistan. Against the background of the feminist debate on counterinsurgency and gender in the US, German discourses surrounding  the role of women in military and peace processes are explored. It is argued that traditional military gender roles – the ‘male warrior’ versus the ‘peaceful woman’ – are used to legitimize the Afghan mission as civilized  and emancipatory and to stabilize traditional military masculinity. In the first section the author highlights the gendered implications of out-of- area-missions in general. In the second section the US-doctrine of counterinsurgency and its gendered implications are illustrated. In the third section, the German military discourse on female soldiers in Afghanistan is deconstructed and the practical implications of these policies for female soldiers are outlined.

Keywords: Gender, military, Afghanistan, out-of-area-mission, female soldier, counterinsurgency

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Bibliographie: Dittmer, Cordula: Der Einsatz westlicher Soldatinnen in Afghanistan – Positionierungen und Aushandlungsprozesse militärischer Geschlechterordnungen, PERIPHERIE, 1-2014, S. 9-25.
https://doi.org/10.3224/peripherie.v34i133.22460