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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"military wives"”.
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Making Military Wives: Militarizing Social Reproduction of Military Families
<p>How do current day military institutional practices structure the daily lives of military wives? To answer this question, I use the theories of greedy institutions, militarization, and the life-course perspective to investigate the effects of deployments, temporary duty assignments, and training …
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Resisting and Transforming: Pastoral Theology and Care of Korean Military Wives
<p>Korean military wives have been symbolized as "dirty," "nothing," and "evil" by Koreans, Korean Americans, and their American families. They also experience same level of oppression and discrimination within Korean American congregations. In Korea, the women suffered poverty, sexual violence, …
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Effect of Short-Term Separation on Behavioral Health of Military Wives
… separation on the behavioral health of military wives using a descriptive pre-test post-test design and 2) to examine predictors of depression among wives of selected active duty military personnel during short-term separation. Specifically, the research was guided by the following …
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Exploring The Experiences Of Senior Enlisted Military Wives Seeking Higher Education Through Distance Learning
… to explore the experiences of senior enlisted military wives and document how the military lifestyle has affected their ability to attain higher education while their servicemember was on active duty. Specifically, my study focused on senior enlisted military wives who have chosen to pursue …
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An Untraditional Life: Male Spouses of Female Military Personnel
Military wives continue to represent the majority of military spouses and as a result, most research on military spouses has focused exclusively on them. Utilizing data from the 1999 Survey of Active Duty Spouses, one goal of this study was to address this gap in the literature by examining how …
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Reflecting (on) the Orientalist Gaze: A Feminist Analysis of Japanese-U.S. GIs Intimacy in Postwar Japan and Contemporary Okinawa
… to the U.S. in the post-World War II era, and "military wives," who married U.S. GIs within the past twenty years and who currently live in Okinawa. My purpose in this study is to examine, reflect on, and challenge the Orientalist gaze, which I define as Eurocentric with male-centered …
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The Reluctant Sorority: Stories of American Wives of Prisoners of War and Missing in Action, 1965–1973. Lessons in Exercising Leadership in the Absence of Power
… via oral history data gathered from a group of military wives who had a significant impact in both the national and international policy arenas after their husbands became prisoners of war (POWs) or were declared missing in action (MIA) in North Vietnam between 1965 and 1973. Data from documents …
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Deployment Stressors, Use of Military and Civilian Resources, and Post-Deployment Adjustment for Wives of Active Duty Service Members
In the current climate of sustained and intensive military operations in the Middle East, spouses of recently deployed active duty service members are negatively affected both psychologically and relationally. Although there is a growing body of literature on spouses' adjustment during the …