A companion to women's military history / / 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.
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Year of Publication: | 2012 |
Edition: | 1st ed. |
Language: | English |
Series: | History of Warfare
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (677 p.) |
Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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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 / |
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Summary: | 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. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 1283578980 9786613891433 9004206825 |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | edited by Barton C. Hacker, Margaret Vining. |