Women and War in the Twentieth Century: Enlisted with or without Consent / Edition 1

by Nicole A. Dombrowski

Overview

First published in 2005. This volume documents women's 20th century wartime experiences from World War I through the recent conflicts in Bosnia. The articles cross national boundaries including France, China, Peru, Guatemala, Germany, Bosnia, the U.S. and Great Britain.. The contributors of these original essays trace the evolution of women's roles as victims of war while also showing how they have been increasingly incorporated into battle as actors and perpetrators. These comparative studies analyze war's disruptions of daily life, its effects on children, rape as a war crime, access to equal opportunity, and women's resistance to violence.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780815322870
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/01/1998
Series:	Women's History and Culture Series , #13
Pages:	392
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Nicole Ann Dombrowski received her Ph.D. in modern European history from New York University in 1995. She is currently finishing a book Families Under Fire: French Civilians and the German Invasion of France, 1940–1942 which analyzes the French state s provisions for civilian security during World War II.

Table of Contents

ONE Soldiers, Saints, or Sacrificial Lambs? Womens Relationship to Combat and the Fortification of the Home Front in the Twentieth Century PART I 1914–1939 TWO Tortured and Exalted by War: French Catholic Women, 1914– 1918, THREE The Great War and Modern Motherhood: La Maternité and the Bombing of Paris FOUR The Enemy Within: The Problem of British Womens Sexuality During the First World War FIVE Why We Joined the Revolution: Voices of Chinese Women Soldiers PART II 1940–1945 SIX Surviving the German Invasion of France: Women’s Stories of the Exodus of 1940 SEVEN The Womanly Face of War: Soviet Women Remember World War II EIGHT A Question of Silence: The Rape of German Women by Soviet Occupation Soldiers NINE The Lesbian Threat: Within the World War II Women’s Army Corps TEN The Silent Significant Minority: Japanese-American Women, Evacuation, and Internment During World War II ELEVEN Turning Women into Weapons: Japan’s Women, the Battle of Saipan, and the "Nature of the Pacific War" PART III 1946-PRESENT TWELVE Gender, War, and the Birth of States: Syrian and Lebanese Women’s Mobilization During World War II THIRTEEN Silence, Invisibility, and Isolation: Mayan Womens Strategies for Defense and Survival in Guatemala FOURTEEN "It s Right to Fight": Women Insurgents in Peru FIFTEEN Surfacing Gender: Reengraving Crimes Against Women in Humanitarian Law

Editorial Reviews

Documents women's wartime experiences from World War I through the recent conflicts in the former Yugoslavia. The essays trace the evolution of women's roles as victims of war into actors and perpetrators, and analyze war's disruptions of daily life, its effects on children, rape as a war crime, access to equal opportunity, and women's resistance to violence. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Booknews

"The expansive nature of this volume makes it important for military and women's historians in need of comparative perspective." -- Journal of Women's History

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