A Companion to Women's Military History
Title | A Companion to Women's Military History |
Publication Type | Book |
Year of Publication | 2012 |
Authors | Hacker, Barton C., and Margaret Vining |
Number of Pages | 625 |
Publisher | Brill |
City | Leiden |
Abstract | Military institutions have everywhere and always shaped the course of history, but women’s near universal participation in them has largely gone unnoticed. This volume addresses the changing relationships between women and armed forces from antiquity to the present. The eight chapters in Part I present broad, scholarly reviews of the existing literature to provide a clear understanding of where we stand. An extended picture essay documents visually women’s military work since the sixteenth century. The book’s second part comprises eight exemplary articles, more narrowly focused than the survey articles but illustrating some of their major themes. Military history will benefit from acknowledging women’s participation, as will women’s history from recognizing military institutions as major factors in molding women’s lives. [WorldCat.] |
URL | https://brill.com/view/title/16556 |
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- 1. War and Gender: From The Thirty Years War and Colonial Conquest to the Wars of Revolution and Independence—An Overview
- 2. Wars, States and Gender In Early Modern Warfare, 1600s–1780s
- 7. History and Memory of Army Women and Female Soldiers, 1770s–1870s
- 15. War and Gender: The Age of the World Wars and its Aftermath—An Overview
- 19. History and Memory of Military Women and Female Soldiers in the Age of World Wars
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