| Summary: | 碩士 === 政治作戰學校 === 軍事社會行為科學研究所 === 92 === It has become an important issue for the military organization that the promotion and the distribution of tasks of military women should be based on their capacities rather than their sex. However, in the isolated and warlike island such as Kinmen, the service experiences of military women will be affected by both their military training and the military environment, for example, physical facilities and leisure arrangement. In other words, when discussing whether military women are competent in the army, we have to focus on the fact that how they are treated within military patriarchy in the process of distribution of resources.
Taking the social support networks of military women in Kinmen as a research latitude, and the view of feminism as an analytical longitude, this study therefore explores the constructing process that how the patriarchal system in army influences the social support networks of military women. It is examined that how feminist interpret, and how military women respond to, this process. The pattern that military women interact with the patriarchal system in army is also studied.
There are there conclusions in this research. Firstly, Kinmen and the army form a dual-patriarchal system which defines military women’s role as “the protected”. The social support networks are thus constructed for military women by the parental army. Secondly, the military women act as a substitute role to be reserved labor of the army in the military patriarchal system. It creates military women’s barriers that the army devalues the contributions of them, and seems reluctant to invest gender-specific facilities, including the limitation of environment support networks, for them. Thirdly, the use of femininity is paradoxical in the army. On one hand, it could create women-only superiority. On the other hand, it weakens women’s roles in the army. It is implied that the paradox would affect the provision and integration of the social support networks of military women.
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