Publications

Group Publications

Rethinking Military Spouses: Critical Research Group (2021) Bringing the Homefront to the Forefront: UK perspectives on critical research with military spouses. Post-Webinar Full Report, University of York.

Rethinking Military Spouses: Critical Research Group (2021) Bringing the Homefront to the Forefront: UK perspectives on critical research with military spouses. Post-Webinar Summary Report, University of York.

Member Publications

Baker, C., Basham, V., Bulmer, S., Gray, H. and Hyde, A. (2016) Encounters with the military: Toward a feminist ethics of critique? International Feminist Journal of Politics, 18(1), pp.140-154.

Basham, V. and Catignani, S. (2018) War is where the hearth is: gendered labor and the everyday reproduction of the geopolitical in the army reserves. International Feminist Journal of Politics, 20(2), pp. 153-171.

Catignani, S. and Basham, V. (2020) Reproducing the military and heteropatriarchal normal: Army Reserve service as serious leisure. Security and Dialogue, 52(2), pp.  99–117. 

Catignani, S. and Basham, V. (2021) The gendered politics of researching military policy in the age of the ‘knowledge economy’. Review of International Studies, 47(2), pp. 211-230.

Caddick, N. (2018) Cheerleaders, Critics, and Diplomats: Exploring Military Researcher Subjectivity. Available here

Cree, A. (2020) 'People want to see tears’: Military heroes and the ‘Constant Penelope’ of the UK’s Military Wives Choir. Gender, Place & Culture, 27(2), pp.218-238.

Cree, A. (2020) Sovereign Wives? An Emotional Politics of Precarity and Resistance in the UK's Military Wives Choir. International Political Sociology, 14(3), pp.304-322.

Cree, A. (2019) Encountering the ‘lively’ in military theatre. In A Research Agenda for Military Geographies (ed. Rachel Woodward). Edward Elgar Publishing.

Cree, A. and Caddick, N. (2020) Unconquerable heroes: Invictus, redemption, and the cultural politics of narrative. Journal of War & Culture Studies, 13(3), pp.258-278.

Godier-McBard, L, R, Cable G, Wood A, Fossey M. (2021) Gender and barriers to mental healthcare in UK military veterans: a preliminary investigation.  BMJ Military Health. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjmilitary-2020-001754

Godier-McBard, L.R., Caddick, N. and Fossey, M., (2020). Confident, valued and supported: Examining the benefits of employment support for military spouses. Military Psychology, 32(3), pp.273-286.

Godier-McBard, L. R., Ibbitson, L., Hooks, C., & Fossey, M. (2019). Military spouses with deployed partners are at greater risk of poor perinatal mental health: a scoping review. Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps.

Gray  H (2022) The power of love: how love obscures domestic labour and shuts down space for critique of militarism in the autobiographical accounts of British military wives. Critical Military Studies. DOI: 10.1080/23337486.2022.2033915. 

Gray, H. 2017. “Domestic Abuse and the Reproduction of the Idealised ‘Military Wife.” In Palgrave International Handbook of Gender and the Military, edited by R. Woodward and C. Duncanson, 227–240. Palgrave.

Gray, H. (2016) Domestic abuse and the public/private divide in the British military. Gender, Place and Culture, 23(6), pp. 912-925.

Gray, H. (2016) Researching from the spaces in between? The politics of accountability in studying the British military. Critical Military Studies, 2(1-2), pp. 70-83.

Gray, H. (2016) The geopolitics of intimacy and the intimacies of geopolitics: combat deployment, post-traumatic stress disorder, and domestic abuse in the British military. Feminist Studies, 42(1), pp. 138-165.

Gribble, R., Goodwin, L., Oram, S. and Fear, N.T. (2019) ‘It’s nice to just be you’: The influence of the employment experiences of UK military spouses during accompanied postings on well-being. Health Psychology Open, (6)1, DOI:10.1177/2055102919838909.

Gribble, R., Mahar, A., Godfrey, K., Muir, S., Albright, D., Daraganova, G., Spinks, N., Fear, N. and Cramm, H. (2018) What does the term "military family" mean? Available here.

Long, E. (2021) Living Liminal Lives: Army partners' spatiotemporal experiences of deployment. Armed Forces and Society. OnlineFirst. DOI: 10.1177/0095327X21995966 

Long, E. (2021) Maximising Operational Effectiveness: Exploring stigma, militarism, and the normative connections to army partners’ support-seeking. Sociology. DOI: 10.1177/00380385211033170

Long, E., Edwards, A., McWade, B., Clark, S. and Brewster, L. (2021) Older Veterans: The materiality of reminiscence, making unknown histories knowable and forging social connections. Memory Studies, 14(4), pp. 892–908.

Long, E. (2019) The spirit of community, the army family, and the impact on formal and informal support mechanisms. In The Politics of Military Families: State, work organizations, and the rise of the negotiation household (ed. René  Moelker, Nina Rones and Manon Andres). Routledge. 

Natale, E. (2021) Researching Violence and Everyday Life in the 1970s: An Ethnographic Approach to the Argentine Military Family. Bulletin of Latin American Research. DOI: 10.1111/BLAR.13293

Natale, E. (2019) Dealing with condemnation: military families and transitional justice in Argentina. In The Politics of Military Families: State, work organizations, and the rise of the negotiation household (ed. René  Moelker, Nina Rones and Manon Andres). Routledge. 

Newman-Earl, E. (2020)  Patch Life: Army Wives Behind the Wire. PhD thesis, University of Essex. Available here.

Rodrigues, M., Osborne, A. K., Johnson, D., & Kiernan, M. D. (2020). The exploration of the dispersal of British military families in England following the Strategic Defence and Security Review 2010. Plos one, 15(9), e0238508.

West, H. (2020) Camp follower or counterinsurgent? Lady Templer and the forgotten wives.  Small Wars and Insurgencies. DOI: 10.1080/09592318.2020.1860373

West, H. and Antrobus, S. (2021) ‘Deeply odd’: women veterans as critical feminist scholars, Critical Military Studies. DOI: 10.1080/23337486.2021.1907020

Other Recommended Publications

Baaz, M. E. and Verweijen, J. (2017) The agency of liminality: Army wives in the DR Congo and the tactical reversal of militarization. Critical Military Studies, 3(3), pp. 267-286.

Basham, V., Belkin, A. and Gifkins, J. (2015) What is critical military studies? Critical Military Studies, 1(1), pp. 1-2. 

Bruce, H.L. and Banister, E. (2020) Army wives’ consumer vulnerability and communities of coping. European Journal of Marketing, 54(11), pp. 2849-2871. 

Carreiras, H. and Castro, C. (2013) Qualitative Methods in Military Studies: Research experiences and challenges. Routledge.

Enloe, C. (2000) Maneuvers: The international politics of militarizing women's lives. University of California Press.

Enloe, C.H. (1983) Does Khaki Become You? The Militarisation of Women's Lives. Pluto Press Limited. 

Harrison, D. (2006) The role of military culture in military organizations’ responses to woman abuse in military families. The Sociological Review, 54(3), pp. 546-574.

Harrison, D. and Laliberté, L. (1993) How combat ideology structures military wives’ domestic labour. Studies in Political Economy, 42(1), pp. 45-80.

Higate, P. and Cameron, A. (2004) Looking back: Military partners reflections on the traditional military. Journal of Political and Military Sociology, 32(2), pp. 207-220.

Higate, P. and Cameron, A. (2006) Reflexivity and researching the military. Armed Forces and Society, 32(2), pp. 219-233.

Horn, D.M. (2010) Boots and bedsheets: Constructing the military support system in times of war. In Sjoberg, L. and Via, S. [Eds.] Gender, War, and Militarism: Feminist Perspectives. Praeger: pp. 57-68. 

Hyde, A. (2016) The present tense of Afghanistan: accounting for space, time and gender in processes of militarisation. Gender, Place and Culture, 23(6), pp. 857-868.

Jervis, S. (2011) Relocation, Gender and Emotion: A Psycho-Social Perspective on the Experiences of Military Wives. Karnac Books.

Johnson, A., Ames, K. and Lawson, C.. (2021) Archetype Profiles of Military Spouses in Australia – Identifying Perfect Partners and Mean Girls. Armed Forces & Society. OnlineFirst. DOI:10.1177/0095327X211029318.

Keeling, M., Borah, E.V., Kintzle, S., Kleykamp, M., and Robertson, H.C. (2020) Military spouses transition, too! a call to action to address spouses’ military to civilian transition. Journal of Family Social Work, 23(1), pp. 3-19. 

Macer, M. and Chadderton, C. (2021) The reproduction of the gender regime: the military and education as state apparatuses constraining the military wife student. Gender and Education, (33)3, pp. 337-354. 

Moelker, R., Andres, M., Bowen, G. and Manigart, P. (2015) Military Families and War in the 21st Century. Routledge.

Moelker, R., Rones, N. and Andres, M. (2019) The Politics of Military Families: State, work organizations, and the rise of the negotiation household. Routledge.  

Soeters, J., Shields, P. and Rietjens, S. (2014) Routledge Handbook of Research Methods in Military Studies. Routledge.

Woodward, R. and Duncanson, C. (2017) The Palgrave International Handbook of Gender and the Military. Palgrave Macmillan.