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Bring Me Men: Military Masculinity and the Benign Façade of American Empire, 1898-2001 Aaron Belkin. New York: Columbia University Press, 2012.
Aaron Belkin, Associate Professor of Political Science at San Francisco State University, explores new ground in military and masculinity studies in Bring Me Men: Military Masculinity and the Benign Façade of American Empire, 1899-2001. Belkin explains "military masculinity" as "a set of beliefs, practices and attributes that can enable individuals-men and women-to claim authority on the basis of affirmative relationships with the military or with military ideas" (3). Whereas previous scholarship contends that military masculinity requires military "warriors" to rid themselves of all things unmasculine, Belkin disagrees. Considering this conventional wisdom to contain a "critical flaw" (3), Belkin argues military masculinity "has required those who embody masculinity to enter into intimate relationships with femininity, queerness and other unmasculine foils, not just disavow them"...