Background
Stiehm, Judith Hicks was born on October 9, 1935 in Madison, Wisconsin, United States. Daughter of Stratton Elson and Eleanor Spencer (Kilbourn) Hicks.
('This book is about America's most unknown soldiers-enlis...)
'This book is about America's most unknown soldiers-enlisted women in the Army, Air Force, Navy, and Marines'. Focusing on the decade from 1972 to 1982, Judith Stiehm uses personal narratives, interviews, policy statements, and other material to explore the experience of American women in the military their reasons for enlisting, their roles, their self-image, and the way they are viewed by civilians. Although there are now more than 200,000 women in uniform, Stiehm asks why the policies concerning enlisted women 'so often appear to fly in the face of both logic and evidence'. Her analysis of the effects of change in military policy on women of different ranks and ages reveals how certain functional myths (e.g., 'war is manly') are challenged by the presence of women. The result has been an uneasy accommodation. "Arms and the Enlisted Woman" includes a vivid first-person account by a female veteran of one woman's experience in the Air Force. Honorably discharged as a Staff Sergeant after six years of working as an airplane mechanic, this woman describes the struggle to be taken seriously and treated equally, and to excel in a non-traditional field. She also relates the joys of seeing a job well done and being part of a cohesive team. Her mixed reaction to her military career epitomizes the difficulty with which enlisted women have been assimilated. Stiehm also analyzes the rapidly shifting military policies concerning women as well as the reasons for certain erroneous but persistent beliefs about them, and remarks, 'One thing seems to be certain. To the professional military the enlisted woman is a raw nerve'. Judith Hicks Stiehm, Provost of Florida International University, is the author of "Bring Me Men and Women: Mandated Change at the W.S. Air Force Academy".
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Click here to listen to the interview with Judith Stiehm and Nobel Prize-winner Wangari Maathai on the Mimi Geerges show. Since it was first awarded in 1901, only twelve women have won the Nobel Prize for Peace. Hailing from all over the world, including the United States, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and Central America, some have held graduate degrees, while others are barely schooled. Some began their work when young, some well past middle age. One was titled and two were subsistence farmers. This book shows their varied lives in fascinating detail. Engaging and inspiring, these women clearly demonstrate that there is something each of us can do to advance a just, positive peace. Whether they began by insisting on garbage collection or simply by planting a tree, each understood that peace must be global in order to be sustained. All learned that peace is not always popular, but believed they must persevere. They shared a common vision and commitment undiminished by obstacles and opposition. All are truly champions for peace.
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( Only fifteen women have won the Nobel Prize for Peace s...)
Only fifteen women have won the Nobel Prize for Peace since it was first awarded in 1901. Hailing from all over the world, some of these women have held graduate degrees, while others barely had access to education. Some began their work young, some late in life. In this compelling book, Judith Stiehm narrates these women’s varied lives in fascinating detail. The second edition includes the stories of three additional outstanding women—Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee, and Tawakkol Karman—who were honored in 2011 with the Nobel Peace Prize “for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and women’s rights to full participation in peace-building work.” Engaged and inspiring, all these women clearly demonstrate that there is something each of us can do to advance a just, positive peace. Whether they began by insisting on garbage collection or simply by planting a tree, each understood that peace must be global in order to be sustained. All learned that peace is not always popular, but believed they must persevere. They shared a common vision and commitment undiminished by obstacles and opposition. As Judith Stiehm convincingly shows, all are truly "champions for peace."
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( Women's integration into the military academies afforde...)
Women's integration into the military academies afforded an almost unique opportunity to study social change. It was a tidy, well-defined natural experiment. The Air Force Academy was willing to permit the kind of external scrutiny that afforded an objective account of the facts of the first year of integration. For sixteen months the academy allowed the author to interview freely and repeatedly all persons concerned with planning and implementing women's admission. Working as a historian (with individuals and documents rather than with questionnaires), Stiehm tells the report of this first year as fully and as accurately as possible.
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Stiehm, Judith Hicks was born on October 9, 1935 in Madison, Wisconsin, United States. Daughter of Stratton Elson and Eleanor Spencer (Kilbourn) Hicks.
Student, Oberlin College, 1953. Bachelor in E. Asian Studies, University Wisconsin, 1957. Master of Arts in American History, Temple University, 1961.
Doctor of Philosophy in Political Theory, Columbia University, 1969.
Director resident honours program University Southern California, Los Angeles, 1970-1973, assistant professor, 1970-1974, associate professor, 1974-1983, director program for study of women and men in society, 1975-1981, professor political science, 1983, vice provost, 1984-1987. Provost Florida International University, Miami, 1987-1991, professor political science, since 1987. Visiting professor University Wisconsin, 1994, United States Army Peacekeeping Institute, United States Army War College, 1995-1996, United States Army Strategic Studies Institute, United States Army War College, 1996, University Southern California, since 2002.
Lecturer University Wisconsin, Madison, 1966-1969,, University of California at Los Angeles, 1969-1970, distinguished visiting professor United States Air Force Academy, 2010-2011. Visiting lecturer San Francisco State University, 1965-1966. Affiliate National Academy of Sciences Project, 1981-1982.
Consultant United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women, California Elected Women, Department Department of Health, American Association of University Women, League of Women Voters Los Angeles, United Nations Lessons Learned Unit, Department Peacekeeping Operations.
(Click here to listen to the interview with Judith Stiehm ...)
('This book is about America's most unknown soldiers-enlis...)
( Women's integration into the military academies afforde...)
( Only fifteen women have won the Nobel Prize for Peace s...)
Member California Postsecondary Education Commission, 1978, California Advisory Council on Vocational Education, 1978-1982, Defense Advisory Committee on Women in Services, 1979-1982. Board directors Southern California and Miami chapters American Civil Liberties Union. Member American Political Science Association (executive council 1989, secretary 2000, Frank Goodnow award, 2008), Western Political Science Association (president 1986), Women's Caucus Political Science (president 1996-1997), National Council for Research on Women (executive council 1982), Council on Foreign Relations, Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi (Victoria Schuck Book award 1990).
Married E. Richard Stiehm, July 12, 1958. Children: Jamie Elizabeth, Carrie Eleanor, Meredith Ellen.