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Elaine Donnelly is an American conservative activist and anti-feminist principally concerned with preserving the traditional culture of the U.S. military. She is a contributing editor at ''Human Events'' magazine.〔National Review'': (Elaine Donnelly’s Bio & Archive ), accessed February 19, 2012〕 She is the founder of the Center for Military Readiness. Elaine Chenevert Donnelly attended Schoolcraft College and the University of Detroit. She lives in Livonia, Michigan, with her husband, Terry, and is the mother of two grown daughters.〔Center for Military Readiness: (Elaine Donnelly's Bio ), accessed February 19, 2012〕 She spent several years as an activist in opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment as National Media Chair of Phyllis Schlafly's Eagle Forum and then founded the Michigan Stop-ERA Committee.〔Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan: (Elaine Chenevert Donnelly Papers, 1973–2003 1985–2001 ), accessed February 19, 2012〕 She was active in Ronald Reagan's presidential campaign. She told an interviewer that her political engagement began with concern that initiatives to extend the rights of women would result in drafting women like her own daughter into the military and developed to the broader issue of women's participation in the military.〔Deborah G. Douglas and Amy E. Foster, ''American Women and Flight Since 1940'' (University Press of Kentucky, 2004), p. 302, (available online ), accessed March 26, 2012〕 In 1984, Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger appointed her to a three-year term on the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services.〔Elaine Donnelly, "Constructing the Co-Ed Military," ''Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy'', vol. 14 (May 2007), (available online ), accessed February 19, 2012〕 In 1992, she served as a member of the Presidential Commission on the Assignment of Women in the Armed Forces, a presidential commission that considered whether women should be allowed to fly combat missions, and joined the 8 to 7 majority that opposed such an expanded role in combat for women.〔''New York Times'': ("Ships, Yes. Planes, No.; Panel Rejects Major Role For Women in Combat," November 8, 1992 ), accessed February 19, 2012〕 In 2009, she maintained that opposition when the roles available to women were expanding during combat in Afghanistan and Iraq.〔''New York Times'': (Lizette Alvarez, "G.I. Jane Breaks the Combat Barrier," August 115, 2009 ), accessed February 19, 2012〕 A 2004 study of the culture of the U.S. military says:〔Carol Burke, ''Camp All-American, Hanoi Jane, and the High-and-tight: Gender, Folklore, and Changing Military Culture'' (Beacon Press, 2004), 128, (available online ), accessed February 19, 2012〕 Donnelly cited as evidence that the military was applying a "double standard" to men and women in the military the case of Lamar S. Owens Jr., a United States Naval Academy student expelled in 2007 for conducting unbecoming an officer after being found innocent of rape while his female accuser was not punished.〔Holly Yeager, "Soldiering Ahead," ''The Wilson Quarterly'', vol. 31, no. 3 (Summer, 2007), 62〕 She has said that "The concept of equality does not fit in combat environments.... Women in combat units endanger male morale and military performance."〔Hilary Neroni, ''The Violent Woman: Femininity, Narrative, and Violence in Contemporary American Cinema'' (State University of New York Press, 2005), 135, (available online ), accessed April 5, 2012〕 She has objected to allowing women to serve on submarines because the air quality poses "a high-risk cause of birth defects in unborn children—particularly in the early weeks of gestation when a woman may not even know she is pregnant". She said Admiral Mike Mullen was "thoughtlessly pushing for co-ed submarines, apparently to please military and civilian feminists".〔''US News and World Report'': (Paul Bedard, "Group Cites Dangers of Submarine Air to Pregnant Women," September 28, 2009 ), accessed April 5, 2012〕 In 2006, when the Department of Defense considered addressing sexual harassment and violence in the military by creating an Office of the Victim Advocate in the Pentagon, Donnelly wrote that it would serve as "an 'Office of Male Bashing,' which nuclearizes the war between the sexes."〔''Washington Times'': (Elaine Donnelly, "Pentagon anti-male room?," February 1, 2006 ), accessed April 5, 2012〕 Donnelly opposes allowing gays and lesbians to openly serve in the military.〔''New York Times'': (Elaine Donnelly, "Military Life is Difficult Enough," May 3, 2009 ), accessed February 19, 2012〕 In 2006, she called the growing effort to repeal the U.S. military's "Don't ask, don't tell" (DADT) policy that prohibited service by open gays and lesbians, "a big P.R. campaign". She said that "The law is there to protect good order and discipline in the military, and it's not going to change."〔''New York Times'': (John Files, "Advocates Hope Supreme Court Ruling Can Renew Attention to 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'," March 13, 2006 ), accessed February 19, 2012〕 In March 2009, Donnelly gathered the signatures of more than a thousand retired military officers in opposition to the repeal of DADT, a letter cited by Sen. John McCain in Senate hearings.〔''The Guardian'': (",Retired military officers: keep ban on gays" March 31, 2009 ), accessed February 19, 2012〕 The Palm Center's Aaron Belkin, who opposes Donnelly's positions on military personnel issues, has written that she "runs the brilliantly named Center for Military Readiness out of her living room in Livonia, Michigan."〔Aaron Belkin, ''How We Won: Progressive Lessons from the Repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"'' (Kindle Edition, 2011), location 312〕 He called her "the most prominent purveyor of the politics of paranoia" and an "archconservative who has spent years vilifying both gays and women in the military."〔Belkin, ''How We Won'', location 910〕 Donnelly has deposited some of her papers at the University of Michigan's Bentley Historical Library.〔 ==Select works== * * 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Elaine Donnelly (writer)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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