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Chronicles the 1991 Tailhook affair involving the U.S. Navy and traces its effects on the role of women in combat, focusing on the struggle of women fighter pilots for equality with their male counterparts. 35,000 first printing. $25,000 ad/promo. Tour.
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Jean Zimmerman vividly explains how the decision to end the legal ban on women in combat stems directly from the Tailhook scandal and argues persuasively that "measured against virtually any historical or cultural time line it signals a fundamental shift in the relations between the sexes ...." Stimulating and provocative.
From Publishers Weekly
Zimmerman (Breaking with Tradition) recounts how the proud tradition of American seafaring men has been usurped by the strutting, party-animal naval aviator popularized by the movie Top Gun. "They claim to love women but what the pilots really get off on is the image of themselves they see in each other." Her analysis of women's struggle to gain a foothold in the military and her examination of the Navy fighter-pilot culture leads toward the conclusion that the Tailhook scandal was all but inevitable. Her account of events on the third floor of the Las Vegas Hilton over the 1991 Labor Day weekend, when sexual harassment and gang-rape became virtually indistinguishable at the Tailhook convention, is comprehensive and authoritative. She follows this with an inquiry into the legal and personal ramifications for those involved. Using Tailhook as the central event of her argument, she lays bare the antipathy of military men to women in the ranks. Her provocative inquiry into women's efforts to gain acceptance in the military concludes with an optimistic assessment of their likely future in the ongoing struggle. This is an angry book by a freelance investigative journalist of the first rank. Photos. Author tour.
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- PublisherDoubleday
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 0385477899
- ISBN 13 9780385477895
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages336
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