Women in War provides an in-depth analysis of women's experiences in the FMLN guerrilla army in El Salvador, and examines the consequences of those experiences for their post war lives. It also develops a new model for investigating and understanding micro-level mobilization processes that has applications to many social movement settings.
Steiner, Antigones, p. 149. 60. Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (New York: W. W. Norton, 1967), p. 75. Portions of this discussion draw on Jean Bethke Elshtain, Meditations on Modern Political Thought (New ...
‘An important contribution to our recent history’ ANDREW MARR ‘Absorbing and important’ JOAN BAKEWELL ‘One of my favourite reads of 2021’ GARETH RUSSELL
Presents an anthology of writings by over 150 women on the subject of war and peace.
Examines the contribution of women to the war effort, from jobs like welding, loading shells, or flying aeroplanes to taking an active role in combat.
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While the book's focus is on today's women in combat, it also reaches back to Vietnam, Korea, and World War II to offer selected stories of inspiring women who served at the "cusp of the spear" as they fought and died for their country.
Women, War, and Work: The Impact of World War I on Women Workers in the United States
These and other Arab women writers, Miriam Cooke reveals, have used their literary crafts to upset and destabilize the oddly comfortable codified 'War Story.
They battled alongside men, and yet, after the victory, their efforts and sacrifices were forgotten. Alexievich traveled thousands of miles and visited more than a hundred towns to record these women’s stories.
Women and War