Army Spouses: Military Spouses During the Global War on Terror
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Authors
Ender, Morten G.
Issue Date
2023-10-15
Type
Books, book chapters
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Keywords
Military Sociology , Army Families , Work and Family
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Abstract
Distilled from nearly two hundred interviews, conducted from the 2003 invasion of Iraq on, Army Spouses marshals an incredible breadth of individual experiences, range of voices, insider access, and theoretical expertise to tell the story of US Army husbands and wives and their families during wartime in this century. Professor Morten Ender offers the first contemporary study of the emotional cycle of deployment and its impact on military families in the post-9/11 world. Military spouses, as he shows, operate both near and far from the front lines, serving on the home front to support combat service in the so-called Global War on Terror that has intimately bound together soldiers, families, the military institution, the state, and society. He paints a vivid picture of army spouses’ range of responses to deployment separations that illuminates the deep sacrifices that soldiers, veterans, and their families have made over the past twenty years.
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Citation
Ender, Morten G. 2023. Army Spouses: Military Families During the Global War on Terror.
Publisher
University of Virginia Press