[1] In 2008, Duncanson and Dr. Eschle published a co-authored article titled "Gender and the Nuclear Weapons State: A Feminist Critique of the UK Government’s White Paper on Trident".
While giving credit to Carol Cohn, she tackles the issue of gendered language and its place within feminist critique of the White Paper.
Her argument is that since the military is so highly masculinized, there is room for feminist critique and opposition because the evidence is not only apparent, but is also overwhelming in that gender narratives are predominantly generalized with positive and negative sexualized connotations.
The sexual metaphorical imagery of "vertical erector launchers, thrust-to-weight ratios, soft lay downs, deep perpetration and orgasmic whump" gives evidence to the predominant phallic nature of the military.
In a further example of the binary, she assumes the role of the protector as the state itself and that any rational individual within; can depict their ideologies as a "sober and mature man who gives careful thought to the achievement of his purposes".