Of Bellicists and Feminists: French Conscription, Total War, and the Gender Contradictions of the State. Geva, D. Politics \& Society, March, 2014.
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How did the state protect and then subvert men’s household authority when the state was exclusively staffed by men? I answer the above question by critically fusing neo-Weberian scholarship on modern state development with feminist political sociology on gender and the state, and by examining establishment of the French conscription system. When first creating a mass army in the nineteenth century, the French state offered family-based exemptions, balancing between expanding state power and maintenance of men’s household authority. However, intensification of twentieth-century total war led to a decrease in family-based exemptions, and the state’s diminished support of men’s household authority. I thereby identify how the fiscal-military state first supported then diminished men’s household authority through one of the state’s most masculine arms.
@article{ geva_bellicists_2014,
  title = {Of Bellicists and Feminists: French Conscription, Total War, and the Gender Contradictions of the State},
  volume = {Online before print},
  issn = {0032-3292, 1552-7514},
  shorttitle = {Of Bellicists and Feminists},
  url = {http://pas.sagepub.com/content/early/2014/03/11/0032329213519418},
  doi = {10.1177/0032329213519418},
  abstract = {How did the state protect and then subvert men’s household authority when the state was exclusively staffed by men? I answer the above question by critically fusing neo-Weberian scholarship on modern state development with feminist political sociology on gender and the state, and by examining establishment of the French conscription system. When first creating a mass army in the nineteenth century, the French state offered family-based exemptions, balancing between expanding state power and maintenance of men’s household authority. However, intensification of twentieth-century total war led to a decrease in family-based exemptions, and the state’s diminished support of men’s household authority. I thereby identify how the fiscal-military state first supported then diminished men’s household authority through one of the state’s most masculine arms.},
  language = {en},
  urldate = {2014-03-20},
  journal = {Politics \& Society},
  author = {Geva, Dorit},
  month = {March},
  year = {2014},
  keywords = {english}
}

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