A Few Good (Wo)Men: Integrating the US Submarine Force

Lindal Buchanan Old Dominion University

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.

Journal
Rhetoric Review
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2016-01-02
DOI
10.1080/07350198.2016.1107826
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