CHAPTER ONE No One Understands Us: Mapping Experiences of Women in the U.S. Military Andrea N. Goldstein There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors. —Adrienne Rich The Coexistence of Victimization and Empowerment Military servicewomen live with coexisting identities that are dissonant with conventional gender roles. 1 Women are promised at enlistment or commis- sioning that there is a place for them in the brotherhood, only to fi nd them- selves as constant outsiders, faces pressed up against the glass of a room they can peer into, but to which they are not admitted. Servicewomen are isolated and misunderstood by both the institution in which they serve and the soci- ety they are sworn to protect (Thomas et al., 2016). It is why many of the two million living American women who served in the military do not self- identify as veterans (Department of Veterans Affairs, 2017a). As surmised from Department of Veterans Affairs literature, “self-identify” means considering oneself a veteran, actively claiming veteran status on employment forms,
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