Controversy about women in the military continues, yet women's relations with the military go far beyond whether they serve in the ranks. This book examines the experiences of women outside of the military, such as comfort women near US bases, women engaged in peacework, and women workers affected by military spending in the federal budget.
War affects women in profoundly different ways than men. Women play many roles during wartime: they are "gendered" as mothers, as soldiers, as munitions makers, as caretakers, as sex workers. How is it that womanhood in the context of war may mean, for one woman, tearfully sending her son off to war, and for another, engaging in civil ......
Women play many roles during wartime. This compelling study brings together the work of foremost scholars on women and war to address questions of ethnicity, women and the war complex, peacemaking, motherhood, and more. It leaves behind outdated arguments about militarist men and pacifist women, while still recognizing differences in men's and ......
At the height of the Vietnam War, American society was so severely fragmented that it seemed that Americans may never again share common concerns. Blending history and cultural criticism in a lucid style, this book discusses an ideology of unity that has emerged through widespread rhetorical and cultural references to the war.
Looking in turn at particular conflicts from the world wars to the Balkans, two veterans of the British Army trace the evolution of the role mass media has played in 20th-century military campaigns. They complain that the media now often seems to be setting the international agenda and usurping the
Careful not to endow the Revolutionary generation with mythical proportions of virtue, the author shows how Arnold suffered because of his lack of political savvy in dealing with those who attacked his honor and reputation. He traces Arnold's life from his difficult childhood through his grueling w
A history of race relations during the Vietnam War. The author describes how black American soldiers grappled with the same racial conflicts as existed in their homeland thousands of miles away.
Chronicling the last five months of Hitler's Thousand Year Reich from the viewpoints of those who were there, a detailed narrative draws on interviews, letters, and eyewitness accounts of Allied and Axis soldiers and citizens.
This important work... synthesizes the evolution of warfare from 1775 to the present." -Military Review A thorough revision of a highly successful text, this new edition provides a comprehensive picture of the evolution of modern warfare. From reviews of the first edition: There is nothing else in print that tells so much so concisely about how ......
