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Capacitating militarised masculinity: Genitourinary injuries, sex/sexuality, and US military medicine / Hobbs, Jenn

Hobbs, Jenn	Journal Article
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This article examines the soldiering body in relation to the increasing prevalence of genitourinary injuries in military personnel. Feminist scholars have demonstrated that the idealised masculine soldiering body are central to the workings of international politics. The article shows that US militarised masculinity operates through the selective distribution of bodily capacities. The article draws upon critical disability studies, particularly Jasbir Puar's work on capacity and debility, to argue that treatments for genitourinary injuries revolve around the production of seminal capacity. Queer and trans bodies are debilitated in these arrangements through the denial of heterosexual and cisgender capabilities to them. To unpack this argument the article analyses treatments for genitourinary injuries. The article shows that genitourinary injuries destabilise the gender identity of US service members. Through an exploration of surgical treatments, including penis transplants and reconstructive surgeries, and fertility treatments, the article shows how masculine capacitation is achieved for some US service members through the debilitation of others; in particular, queer and trans bodies, and the bodies of Iraqi and Afghan civilians.

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Biopolitics ; Gender ; Capacity ; Sexuality ; Military Medicine ; Feminist Security Studies ;
Militarised Masculinity ; Critical Disability Studies ; Genital Injuries ; Debility

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Figure of the abducted Acholi girl: nation-building, gender, and children born into the LRA in Uganda / Stewart, Beth W

Stewart, Beth W	Journal Article
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Based on analysis of newspapers and secondary sources, this article examines the gendered construction of the national imagery of the war between the Ugandan government and the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in an effort to expand current conceptual understanding of the exclusion experienced by children born of forced marriage inside the LRA. Uganda developed as a militarised and masculine post-colony and yet nation-building for President Museveni involved crafting a national imagery that drew upon development discourses of gender and children to position himself as the benevolent father of the nation. Invoking Veena Das’ ‘figure of the abducted woman’, I argue that the Ugandan government mobilised the figure of the abducted Acholi girl to legitimise both its governance and the war. The article concludes that the resulting narrative provided no legitimate social or political space in the national imagery for the children of the abducted girls.

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Uganda ; Nation-Building ; Lord's Resistance Army ; Child Soldiers ; Wartime Sexual Violence ; Forced Marriage ;
Militarised Masculinity ; Born of War

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