A Soldier and a Woman: Sexual Integration in the Military

, by De Groot, Gerard J.; Peniston-Bird, C. M.

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ISBN: 9780582414396 | 0582414393
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 6/1/2000

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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.

Preface

Part 1: Sexual Integration in the Military before 1945 Introduction to Part 1: Arms and the Woman

(352)

Gerard J. DeGroot

Silent Partners: Women and Warfare in Early Modern Europe

(15)

Brian Crim

In the Army: Women, Camp Followers and Gender Roles in the British Army in the French and Indian Wars, 1755--1765

(16)

Scott N. Hendrix

`We Too Were Soldiers': The Experiences of British Nurses in the Angle-Boer War, 1899--1902

(17)

Christopher Schmitz

They Fought for Russia: Female Soldiers of the First World War

(17)

Laurie Stoff

Women at Work: Chinese Soldiers on the Long March, 1934--1936

(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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A Soldier and a Woman: Sexual Integration in the Military

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