| Description |
ix, 377 pages ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Note |
Originally published Garland, 1999. |
| Contents |
Soldiers, saints, or sacrifical lambs? Women's relationship to combat and the fortification of the home front in the twentieth century / Nicole Ann Dombrowski -- Part I: 1914-1939 -- Tortured and exalted by war: French Catholic women, 1914-1918 / Annette Becker -- The Great War and modern motherhood: la maternité and the bombing of Paris / Mindy Jane Roseman -- The enemy within: the problem of British women's sexuality during the First World War / Susan R. Grayzel -- Why we joined the revolution: voices of Chinese women soldiers / Helen Praeger Young -- Part II: 1940-1945 -- Surviving the German invasion of France: women's stories of the exodus of 1940 / Nicole Ann Dombrowski -- The womanly face of war: Soviet women remember World War II / Barbara Alpern Engel -- A question of silence: the rape of German women by Soviet occupation soldiers / Atina Grossmann -- The Lesbian threat: within the World War II Women's Army Corps / Leisa D. Meyer -- The silent significant minority: Japanese-American women, evacuation, and internment during World War II / Ivy D. Arai -- Turning women into weapons: Japan's women, the battle of Saipan, and the "nature of the Pacific war" / Haruko Taya Cook -- Part III: 1946-Present -- Gender, war, and the birth of states: Syrian and Lebanese women's mobilization during World War II / Elizabeth Thompson -- Silence, invisibility, and isolation: Mayan women's strategies for defense and survival in Guatemala / Antonella Fabri -- "It's right to fight": women insurgents in Peru / Carol Andreas -- Surfacing gender: reengraving crimes against women in humanitarian law / Rhonda Copelon. |
| Subject |
World War, 1939-1945 -- Women.
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Women.
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Women and war.
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Women and the military.
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Women -- History -- 20th century.
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World War (1914-1918) (OCoLC)fst01180746
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World War (1939-1945) (OCoLC)fst01180924
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Women. (OCoLC)fst01176568
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Women and the military. (OCoLC)fst01177119
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Women and war. (OCoLC)fst01177123
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| Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Added Author |
Risser, Nicole Dombrowski.
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| ISBN |
0415972566 (paperback) |
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9780415972567 (paperback) |
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9780203020326 |
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0203020324 |
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