Hysterical Girls: Combat Trauma as a Feminist Issue

International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 11 (1):3-21 (2018)
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Abstract

In the United States, combat veterans are overwhelmingly male. It was not until 2013 that the ban preventing women from serving in combat was removed by then-Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, and not until 2016 that women could choose to enlist in Army Ranger School or become a Navy SEAL. Currently, only 6 percent of the veteran population in the United States is female. Why, then, choose combat trauma to show the ways in which our understanding of PTSD is problematically sexist? Why argue that combat trauma is a feminist issue when there are types of trauma that impact women more directly?Combat trauma has proven to be difficult to understand and to...

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MaryCatherine McDonald
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Feminist bioethics.Anne Donchin - 2008 - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

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