I’m in my work break of 2h30, so I decided to study a bit more on gender and violence.
Again my readings led me to transgendering in militarism, this time through the notion of the body.
I remembered my essays about my boxing experience; my body was a category of differentiation. Because my body differences acquired significance within the world was in (boxing), I self was seen as unfit (or less fit) to practice such sport.
I started questioning:
What is the notion of body in the military? What significance the body carries to allow a definition of who does or doesn’t fit in the armed forces? Does this significance have been changing through time and space? How relevant is the women and transsexuals’ body, to whom western society attributes a different significance, to their acceptance in the armed forces? And so on.
I think the notion of the body will be a good starting point to analyse the gendered world of militarism.
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