A Few Good (Wo)Men: Integrating the US Submarine Force. Issue 1 (2nd January 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Buchanan, Lindal
• Is Part Of: Rhetoric review. Volume 35:Issue 1(2016)
• Page Start: 35
• Page End: 48
• Publication Date: 2016-01-02
• Subjects: Rhetoric -- Periodicals; 808.005
• DOI: 10.1080/07350198.2016.1107826
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0735-0198

Abstract

Abstract : The US Navy admitted women into the submarine force in 2010, then one of the last male-only professions remaining in the Armed Forces. Examining rhetorical ecologies surrounding the integration decision, this essay charts the contextual forces and stakeholder discourses that shaped submarine assignment policy over a critical fifteen-year period. It also traces shifting assumptions about gender and space within that policy and their consequences for women. Time, then, is a vital component of policy analysis, permitting feminist rhetoricians to identify gendering processes in the workplace and discursive patterns of organizational change.