AYSE GUL ALTINAY, The Myth of the Military-Nation: Militarism, Gender, and Education in Turkey (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004). Pp. 217. $59.95 cloth. $24.95 paper

The presentation of the Gokcen's memoirs and the ways in which the state invests in her public image hints at very interesting questions about how the discourse of militarism is used in the construction of gendered notions of citizenship involving not only femininity but also masculinity, and yet the author does not offer such an analysis. Enriched by the personal accounts of various conscription evaders and of gay activists who were declared unfit to serve in the military due to their alleged "psycho-sexual problems" (p. 80), this section illustrates how such counterdiscourses challenge the masculinist and militaristic norms of citizenship.