| Description |
ix, 377 pages ; 22 cm |
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1. Soldiers, Saints, or Sacrificial Lambs? Women's Relationship to Combat and the Fortification of the Home Front in the Twentieth Century / Nicole Ann Dombrowski -- Pt. I. 1914-1939. 2. Tortured and Exalted by War: French Catholic Women, 1914-1918 / Annette Becker. 3. The Great War and Modern Motherhood: La Maternite and the Bombing of Paris / Mindy Jane Roseman. 4. The Enemy Within: The Problem of British Women's Sexuality During the First World War / Susan R. Grayzel. 5. Why We Joined the Revolution: Voices of Chinese Women Soldiers / Helen Praeger Young -- Pt. II. 1940-1945. 6. Surviving the German Invasion of France: Women's Stories of the Exodus of 1940 / Nicole Ann Dombrowski. 7. The Womanly Face of War: Soviet Women Remember World War II / Barbara Alpern Engel. 8. A Question of Silence: The Rape of German Women by Soviet Occupation Soldiers / Atina Grossmann. 9. The Lesbian Threat: Within the World War II Women's Army Corps / Leisa D. Meyer |
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10. The Silent Significant Minority: Japanese-American Women, Evacuation, and Internment During World War II / Ivy D. Arai. 11. Turning Women into Weapons: Japan's Women, the Battle of Saipan, and the "Nature of the Pacific War" / Haruko Taya Cook -- Pt. III. 1946-Present. 12. Gender, War, and the Birth of States: Syrian and Lebanese Women's Mobilization During World War II / Elizabeth Thompson. 13. Silence, Invisibility, and Isolation: Mayan Women's Strategies for Defense and Survival in Guatemala / Antonella Fabri. 14. "It's Right to Fight": Women Insurgents in Peru / Carol Andreas. 15. Surfacing Gender: Reengraving Crimes Against Women in Humanitarian Law / Rhonda Copelon |
| Notes |
[Originally published: New York : Garland, 1999] |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| 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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| Author |
Risser, Nicole Dombrowski.
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| ISBN |
0815322879 (Garland) |
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0415972566 (Routledge) |
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