| dc.contributor.author | Norris, Deborah Anne McGinn. | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2014-10-21T12:37:57Z | |
| dc.date.available | 1996 | |
| dc.date.issued | 1996 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.other | AAINN15919 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10222/55136 | |
| dc.description | This study is a feminist qualitative research project which proceeded from the local and particular standpoints of seven female military partners experiencing the cycle of deployment, that is, pre-deployment, deployment and post-deployment. The male partners of these women all served in the Navy and were deployed for seven months off the coast of the former Yugoslavia with the NATO fleet responsible for enforcing the United Nations Arms Embargo in place in this war-torn area at that time. | en_US |
| dc.description | The purpose of the study involved displaying the everyday practices of the participating women as they experienced the cycle of deployment. In so doing, the meanings underpinning the practices were revealed. Some of the practices were articulated as coping strategies and psychological resources employed by the women as the deployment unfolded. | en_US |
| dc.description | This research was grounded in accounts of everyday experience, rather than from a theoretical standpoint. This approach is consistent with Dorothy Smith's (1987) contention that experience should not be used as a mere resource in research, bur as a starting point. Accordingly, this study is based on the premise that the broad complex of relations, including the relations of ruling, that constitute the military institution can be discovered in the routine practices inherent in the everyday lives of female military partners. Moreover, I assumed that ideologies and discourses coordinate these practices and link the practices to the institution. | en_US |
| dc.description | Intensive interviews at each of the three phases of the deployment cycle as well as regular meetings of the entire group of women comprised the methods employed in this study. The data which emerged was analyzed using Glaser and Strauss' (1967) constant comparative method as well as certain other reflexive, reflective and intersubjective processes. | en_US |
| dc.description | As the practices, meanings, strategies and resources relevant to deployment emerged, gender and military ideologies embedded therein were extricated and analyzed. Discursive concepts and categories implicated in the invisibility of the everyday practice of female military partners were also examined. | en_US |
| dc.description | Because this research began with everyday experience, the work involved in living through a cycle of deployment was displayed. The complexities of the work which cannot be reduced to simple discursive frameworks were also revealed. The results of the study explicated how the daily work embodies both gender and military ideologies and how these ideologies are reinforcing. From this, it was possible to see that some military ideologies are contradictory and linked to the relevances of the military. Finally, other aspects of a general ruling apparatus, such as the media, were seen to intersect with the ruling practices of the military through this study. | en_US |
| dc.description | Implications and recommendations for educational and counselling practice were derived from these findings and presented and discussed within the thesis. | en_US |
| dc.description | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Dalhousie University (Canada), 1996. | en_US |
| dc.language | eng | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Dalhousie University | en_US |
| dc.publisher | | en_US |
| dc.subject | Women's Studies. | en_US |
| dc.subject | Education, Adult and Continuing. | en_US |
| dc.subject | Education, Philosophy of. | en_US |
| dc.title | "Working them out...working them in": Ideology, discourse and the everyday lives of female military partners experiencing the cycle of deployment. | en_US |
| dc.type | text | en_US |
| dc.contributor.degree | Ph.D. | en_US |
