Improper channels : a feminist analysis of military social services in relation to Canadian military wives and their work

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dc.contributor.authorMiller, Beverly Jeanen_US
dc.date.accessioned2024-08-14T22:51:30Z
dc.date.available2024-08-14T22:51:30Z
dc.date.copyright1995en_US
dc.date.issued1995
dc.degree.departmentFaculty of Human and Social Development
dc.degree.departmentSchool of Social Work
dc.degree.levelMaster of Social Work M.S.W.en
dc.description.abstractThis thesis is an exploration of how Canadian military wives' experiences of needing help with their everyday work are transformed through the military system so as to render their troubles as military wives manageable in specific ways. A feminist, non-positivist method of institutional ethnography used by the researcher reveals an understanding and explication of the power relations and ruling experienced by military wives in their relation to the military helping professions. The author argues that women marrying military members become 'objects' of military knowledge and organizational action. This study shows how military wives' work in their families helps keep their husbands operationally effective, thus the wives are doing work for the military. The military both creates wives' troubles and transforms them into personal problems.
dc.format.extent140 pages
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1828/18991
dc.rightsAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.titleImproper channels : a feminist analysis of military social services in relation to Canadian military wives and their worken_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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