Women and War
Title | Women and War PDF eBook |
Author | Jean Bethke Elshtain |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 317 |
Release | 1995-07-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0226206262 |
Jean Elshtain examines how the myths of Man as "Just Warrior" and Woman as "Beautiful Soul" serve to recreate and secure women's social position as noncombatants and men's identity as warriors. Elshtain demonstrates how these myths are undermined by the reality of female bellicosity and sacrificial male love, as well as the moral imperatives of just wars.
Women and War
Title | Women and War PDF eBook |
Author | Chantal de Jonge Oudraat |
Publisher | US Institute of Peace Press |
Pages | 186 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 160127064X |
In consideration of UN Resolution 1325 (which called for women's equal participation in promoting peace and security and for greater efforts to protect women exposed to violence during and after conflict), this volume takes stock of the current state of knowledge on women, peace and security issues, including efforts to increase women's participation in post-conflict reconstruction strategies and their protection from wartime sexual violence.
Band of Sisters
Title | Band of Sisters PDF eBook |
Author | Kirsten Holmstedt |
Publisher | Stackpole Books |
Pages | 386 |
Release | 2008-08-25 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0811735664 |
Profiles twelve women soldiers who have served in the Iraq War, describing their experiences in the war, discussing the pressures of the job, and touching on the difficulties of being a woman in the military.
One Woman in the War
Title | One Woman in the War PDF eBook |
Author | Alaine Polcz |
Publisher | Central European University Press |
Pages | 162 |
Release | 2002-07-10 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9633860059 |
Before the publication of this book, Alaine Polcz was widely recognized as a psychologist ministering to the needs of disturbed and incurably ill children and their families, as the author of numerous articles and several books on thanatology, and as the founder of the hospice movement in Hungary. The autobiographic account of the experiences of a woman, then 19-20, in the closing months of the Second World War. When it was first published, in 1991, the book was a revelation of past horrors in Hungary which, until then, had lingered on in the farthest reaches of the national memory as rumor and suspicion about the violent acts committed against women during a time of chaos, havoc, and savagery. The literary world quickly recognized the merits of this book: It was highly praised by Hungarian reviewers, awarded prizes, and has already been translated into French, Rumanian, Slovenian, and Serbian.
The Unwomanly Face of War
Title | The Unwomanly Face of War PDF eBook |
Author | Светлана Алексиевич |
Publisher | |
Pages | 385 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0399588728 |
"Originally published in Russian as U voiny--ne zhenskoe lietiso by Mastatskaya Litaratura, Minsk, in 1985. Originally published in English as War's unwomanly face by Progress Publishers, Moscow, in 1988"--Title page verso.
The Women's War
Title | The Women's War PDF eBook |
Author | Jenna Glass |
Publisher | Del Rey |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | FICTION |
ISBN | 9781984817204 |
Also has published earlier works under Black, Jenna.
Women at War in the Borderlands of the Early American Northeast
Title | Women at War in the Borderlands of the Early American Northeast PDF eBook |
Author | Gina M. Martino |
Publisher | UNC Press Books |
Pages | 233 |
Release | 2018-03-23 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1469641003 |
Across the borderlands of the early American northeast, New England, New France, and Native nations deployed women with surprising frequency to the front lines of wars that determined control of North America. Far from serving as passive helpmates in a private, domestic sphere, women assumed wartime roles as essential public actors, wielding muskets, hatchets, and makeshift weapons while fighting for their families, communities, and nations. Revealing the fundamental importance of martial womanhood in this era, Gina M. Martino places borderlands women in a broad context of empire, cultural exchange, violence, and nation building, demonstrating how women's war making was embedded in national and imperial strategies of expansion and resistance. As Martino shows, women's participation in warfare was not considered transgressive; rather it was integral to traditional gender ideologies of the period, supporting rather than subverting established systems of gender difference. In returning these forgotten women to the history of the northeastern borderlands, this study challenges scholars to reconsider the flexibility of gender roles and reveals how women's participation in transatlantic systems of warfare shaped institutions, polities, and ideologies in the early modern period and the centuries that followed.