A Companion toWomen’s Military History

Copyright

Contents

List of Illustrations

List of Contributors

Introduction

PART I: WOMEN AND MILITARY INSTITUTIONS FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE PRESENT: SURVEY ARTICLES

1. “Keep the Women out of the Camp!”: Women and Military Institutions in the Classical World

2. Camp Followers, Sutlers, and Soldiers’ Wives: Women in Early Modern Armies (c. 1450–c. 1650)

3. Essential Women, Necessary Wives, and Exemplary Soldiers: The Military Reality and Cultural Representation of Women’s Military Participation (1600–1815)

4. Reformers, Nurses, and Ladies in Uniform: The Changing Status of Military Women (c. 1815–c. 1914)

5. Volunteers, Auxiliaries, and Women’s Mobilization: The First World War and Beyond (1914–1939)

6. Women Join the Armed Forces: The Transformation of Women’s Military Work in World War II and After (1939–1947)

7. Almost Integrated? American Servicewomen and Their International Sisters Since World War II

8. Revolutionaries, Regulars, and Rebels: Women and Non-Western Armies since World War II

PART II: PICTURES OF WOMEN’S MILITARY WORK SINCE THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY

Introduction to Part II

Illustrations

PART III: RESEARCH ESSAYS IN WOMEN’S MILITARY HISTORY

9. Women and War in Early Modern Russia (Seventeenth to Eighteenth Centuries)

10. Sisters in Arms: Quebec Convents at the Crossroads of Empire

11. U.S. Military Wives in the Philippines, from the Philippine War to World War II

12. “The Spirit of Woman-Power”: Representation of Women in World War I Posters

13. “German Women Help to Win!” Women and the German Military in the Age of World Wars

14. “Not Even For Three Lines in History”: Jewish Women Underground Members and Partisans during the Holocaust

15. Sniper Girls and Fearless Heroines: Wartime Representations of Foreign Women in English-Canadian Press, 1941–1943

16. Enlisted Women in the U.S. Army 1948–2008: A View from the Market Place

Index