TY - JOUR
AU1 - Zolberg, Vera
AB - 1232 / Social Forces 77:3, March 1999 try to emphasize either masculinity or femininity, most of those who did adopt such a strategy tried to emphasize femininity. These data, Herbert rightly notes, suggest the intimate links between gender and sexuality, and the ways in which cultural ideologies regarding gender and regarding sexuality reinforce each other. Although the author does a good job of describing the problems faced by women soldiers, she is less convincing in her arguments regarding how women manage those problems. The weaknesses of her argument stem from an inherent mismatch between her thesis and her methodology. Data for this book come from 14 interviews and 285 questionnaires answered by veterans and active-duty military personnel, both enlisted persons and officers, who responded to notices posted by the author in various military, veterans, and lesbian publications and organizations. Most of the questionnaire data come from answers to close-ended questions. Because the sample was nonrandom, Herbert's emphasis throughout on statistical analysis of the data seems somewhat misplaced. At the same time, because she conducted few interviews and no observations, she has only limited and retrospective data on the process through which these women managed gender. Thus it is difficult 
TI - Culture and Power: The Sociology of Pierre Bourdieu. By David Swartz. University of Chicago Press, 1997. Cloth, $57.00; paper, $15.95
JF - Social Forces
DO - 10.1093/sf/77.3.1232
DA - 1999-03-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/culture-and-power-the-sociology-of-pierre-bourdieu-by-david-swartz-1CyRod1nVD
SP - 1232
EP - 1234
VL - 77
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -