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.

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.

Table of Contents

• Preliminary Material / Barton C. Hacker and Margaret Vining
• Introduction / Barton C. Hacker and Margaret Vining
• “Keep the Women out of the Camp!”: Women and Military Institutions in the Classical World / Jorit Wintjes
• Camp Followers, Sutlers, and Soldiers’ Wives: Women in Early Modern Armies (c. 1450–c. 1650) / Mary Elizabeth Ailes
• Essential Women, Necessary Wives, and Exemplary Soldiers: The Military Reality and Cultural Representation of Women’s Military Participation (1600–1815) / John A. Lynn
• Reformers, Nurses, and Ladies in Uniform: The Changing Status of Military Women (c. 1815–c. 1914) / Barton C. Hacker
• Volunteers, Auxiliaries, and Women’s Mobilization: The First World War and Beyond (1914–1939) / Kimberly Jensen
• Women Join the Armed Forces: The Transformation of Women’s Military Work in World War II and After (1939–1947) / Margaret Vining
• Almost Integrated? American Servicewomen and Their International Sisters Since World War II / D’Ann Campbell
• Revolutionaries, Regulars, and Rebels: Women and Non-Western Armies since World War II / Barton C. Hacker
• Introduction to Part II / Barton C. Hacker and Margaret Vining
• Illustrations / Barton C. Hacker and Margaret Vining
• Women and War in Early Modern Russia (Seventeenth to Eighteenth Centuries) / Carol B. Stevens
• Sisters in Arms: Quebec Convents at the Crossroads of Empire / Jan Noel
• U.S. Military Wives in the Philippines, from the Philippine War to World War II / Donna Alvah
• “The Spirit of Woman-Power”: Representation of Women in World War I Posters / Elizabeth Prelinger and Barton C. Hacker
• “German Women Help to Win!” Women and the German Military in the Age of World Wars / Karen Hagemann
• “Not Even For Three Lines in History”: Jewish Women Underground Members and Partisans during the Holocaust / Yehudit Kol-Inbar
• Sniper Girls and Fearless Heroines: Wartime Representations of Foreign Women in English-Canadian Press, 1941–1943 / Dorotea Gucciardo and Megan Howatt
• Enlisted Women in the U.S. Army 1948–2008: A View from the Market Place / Judith Hicks Stiehm
• Index / Barton C. Hacker and Margaret Vining.