A Soldier and a Woman: Sexual Integration in the Military,9780582414396

A Soldier and a Woman: Sexual Integration in the Military

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ISBN13: 9780582414396
ISBN10: 0582414393
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2000-06-01
Publisher(s): Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd
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Summary

Providing a background to an often contentious debate, Gerard DeGroot explores the long history surrounding the issue of women's role in the military. Examines the experiences of women in the military from the late medieval period to the present day. Explores a wide range of wars including, The Thirty Years War, the First and Second World Wars, the Long March in China, and the Viet Nam War. Also examined is terrorism and contemporary military service.

Table of Contents

Preface x
Part 1: Sexual Integration in the Military before 1945 Introduction to Part 1: Arms and the Woman 3(352)
Gerard J. DeGroot
Silent Partners: Women and Warfare in Early Modern Europe
18(15)
Brian Crim
In the Army: Women, Camp Followers and Gender Roles in the British Army in the French and Indian Wars, 1755--1765
33(16)
Scott N. Hendrix
`We Too Were Soldiers': The Experiences of British Nurses in the Angle-Boer War, 1899--1902
49(17)
Christopher Schmitz
They Fought for Russia: Female Soldiers of the First World War
66(17)
Laurie Stoff
Women at Work: Chinese Soldiers on the Long March, 1934--1936
83(17)
Helen Praeger Young
Lipstick on her Nipples, Cordite in her Hair: Sex and Romance among British Servicewomen during the Second World War
100(19)
Gerard J. DeGroot
`She Wants a Gun not a Dishcloth!': Gender, Service and Citizenship in Britain in the Second World War
119(16)
Penny Summerfield
Soldiers in the Shadows: Women of the French Resistance
135(17)
Margaret Collins Weitz
`Do Not Speak of the Services You Rendered': Women Veterans of Aviation in the Soviet Union
152(33)
Reina Pennington
Part 2: Sexual Integration in the Military since 1945
Introduction to Part 2: Ambiguity, Contradiction and Possibility
175(10)
Corinna Peniston-Bird
Soldiers and Symbols: North Vietnamese Women and the American War
185(20)
Karen Turner
`Dark Angel': Vietnam War Poetry by American Women Veterans
205(18)
Edward J. Rielly
Women, War and the Veil: Muslim Women in Resistance and Combat
223(17)
Kathryn M. Coughlin
Between Worlds: Algerian Women in Conflict
240(16)
Nicole F. Ladewig
Gendering Military Service in the Israel Defence Forces
256(19)
Dafna N. Izraeli
Women in China's Changing Military Ethic
275(19)
Susan M. Rigdon
`And Don't Forget to Clean the Fridge': Women in the Secret Sphere of Terrorism
294(11)
Catherine Taylor
`A Simple Matter of Equality': The Admission of Women to West Point
305(15)
Lance Janda
Delilah Shaves Her Hair: Women, the Military and Hollywood
320(17)
Corinna Peniston-Bird
Military Law and the Treatment of Women Soldiers: Sexual Harassment and Fraternization in the US Army
337(18)
Fred L. Borch III
Notes on Contributors 355(5)
Guide to Further Reading 360(14)
Index 374

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