Women and War in the Twentieth Century: Enlisted with or without Consent [Hardcover]

The expansive nature of this volume makes it important for military and women's historians in need of comparative perspective. -- Journal of Women's HistoryFirst 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.First published in 2005. This volume documents women's 20th century wartime experiences from World War I through the recent conflicts in Bosnia.

ONE Soldiers, Saints, or Sacrificial Lambs? Womens Relationship to Combat and the Fortification of the Home Front in the Twentieth Century PART I 19141939 TWO Tortured and Exalted by War: French Catholic Women, 1914 1918, THREE The Great War and Modern Motherhood: La Maternit? 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 19401945 SIX Surviving the German Invasion of France: Womens 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 Womens Army Corps TEN The Silent Significant Minority: Japanese-American Women, Evacuation, and Internment During World War II ELEVEN Turning Women into Weapons: Japans Women, the Battle of Saipan, and the Nature of the Pacific War PART III 1946-PRESENT TWELVE Gender, War,l£H