Sexual Harassment in the Military

1. The topic I would like to focus on is woman in the armed forces, and the issue of sexual harassment in the military. 2. The specific issue I would like to focus on is how a great number of women are sexually assaulted and raped, and there is not much they can do for justice within the majorly masculine realm of the military. I believe this is an appropriate research problem because I am being specific to women in the armed forces and even more specific on the experiences of sexual harassment nearly every woman receives in the military. I would like to expose the issues of vulnerability of women in the military. The steps I have taken was that first I had decided my topic was going to be about women in the military, then the specific issue is sexual harassment in the military and how it affect them 3. The only pitfall I can think of currently is that it may be too specific, although there are many examples and issues of this throughout the years. Otherwise I do think it will be a great topic to use for the HA and advocacy essays. 4. I intend to use multiple online databases researching for journal entries or feministic-militarism centered articles. 5. Lorraine Dowler: The Hidden War: The ‘Risk’ to Female Soldiers in the US Military Dowler, Lorraine. The Hidden War: The â€Å"Risk† to Female Soldiers in the US Military. â€Å"Reconstructing Conflict: Integrating War and Post-war Geographies. By Scott Kirsch and Colin Flint. Aldershot: Ashgate Pub. , 2011. 295-314. Print. Dowler, a professor of Women Studies, Gender, and militarization at the Pennsylvania State University, writes that, woman that are in the U. S. armed forces are immersed in an overwhelmingly masculine environment, and the woman is seen as a foreign body to most men, and are thus subject to harassment. This is important to my research because this chapter outlines the vulnerability of women in the armed forces and the easons of that vulnerability and how it affects the woman of the military. Sandra Via: Gender, War, and Militarism: Feminist Perspectives Sandra Via, has a doctorate in political science and teaches at ferrum college. Her chapter in the book is credible since the sources she had used for her chapter were from scholarly journals and articles and other people with high credentials. She talks about mainly militarization a nd globalization and the role of the woman in arms. T. S. Nelson: For Love of Country: Confronting Rape and Sexual Harassment in the U. S. Military