A companion to women's military history / / edited by Barton C. Hacker, Margaret Vining.

• TeilnehmendeR: Hacker, Barton C., 1935-; Vining, Margaret.
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: History of Warfare 74.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (677 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; Introduction /; “Keep the Women out of the Camp!”: Women and Military Institutions in the Classical World /; Camp Followers, Sutlers, and Soldiers’ Wives: Women in Early Modern Armies (c. 1450–c. 1650) /; Essential Women, Necessary Wives, and Exemplary Soldiers: The Military Reality and Cultural Representation of Women’s Military Participation (1600–1815) /; Reformers, Nurses, and Ladies in Uniform: The Changing Status of Military Women (c. 1815–c. 1914) /; Volunteers, Auxiliaries, and Women’s Mobilization: The First World War and Beyond (1914–1939) /; Women Join the Armed Forces: The Transformation of Women’s Military Work in World War II and After (1939–1947) /; Almost Integrated? American Servicewomen and Their International Sisters Since World War II /; Revolutionaries, Regulars, and Rebels: Women and Non-Western Armies since World War II /; Introduction to Part II /; Illustrations /; Women and War in Early Modern Russia (Seventeenth to Eighteenth Centuries) /; Sisters in Arms: Quebec Convents at the Crossroads of Empire /; U.S. Military Wives in the Philippines, from the Philippine War to World War II /; “The Spirit of Woman-Power”: Representation of Women in World War I Posters /; “German Women Help to Win!” Women and the German Military in the Age of World Wars /; “Not Even For Three Lines in History”: Jewish Women Underground Members and Partisans during the Holocaust /; Sniper Girls and Fearless Heroines: Wartime Representations of Foreign Women in English-Canadian Press, 1941–1943 /; Enlisted Women in the U.S. Army 1948–2008: A View from the Market Place /; Index /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 1283578980; 9786613891433; 9004206825
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Barton C. Hacker, Margaret Vining.

This volume addresses the changing relationships between women and armed forces from antiquity to the present: eight chapters review the existing literature, an extended picture essay visually documents women's military work, and eight chapters illustrate more restricted topics.