This volume explores the experience of women as victims and agents of
warfare in a variety of historical and international settings since the
debut of the 20th century.
Chapter Titles and Authors:
Chapter One: Nicole Ann Dombrowski
"Soldiers, Saints, or Sacrificial Lambs? Women's
Relationship to Combat and the Fortification of the Home Front in the 20th
Century"
Chapter Two: Annette Becker (University of Paris, Nanterre)
"Tortured and Exalted by War: French Catholic Women,
1914-1918"
Chapter Three: Mindy Jane Roesman (Columbia University)
"The Great War and Modern Motherhood: La Maternite
and the Bombing of Paris"
Chapter Four: Susan R. Grayzel (University of Mississippi)
"The Enemy Within: The Problem of British Women's
Sexuality During the First World War"
Chapter Five: Helen Praeger Young (Stanford University)
"Why We Joined the Revolution: Voices of Chinese
Women Soldiers"
Chapter Six: Nicole Ann Dombrowski (Towson University)
"Surviving the German Invasion of France: Women's
Stories of the Exodus of 1940"
Chapter Seven: Barbara Alpern Engel (University of Colorado,
Bolder)
"The Womanly Face of War: Soviet Women Remember
World War II"
Chapter Eight: Atina Grossmann (Cooper Union, NYC)
"A Question of Silence: The Rape of German
Women by Soviet Soldiers"
Chapter Nine: Lisa D. Meyer (The College of William and Mary)
"The Lesbian Threat: Within the World War
II Women's Army Corp"
Chapter Ten: Ivy D. Arai (Unaffiliated)
"The Silent Significant Minority: Japanese-American
Women, Evacuation, and Internment During World War II"
Chapter Eleven: Haruko Taya Cook (Marymount College)
"Turning Women in to Weapons: Japan's Women,
the Battle of Saipan, and the "Nature of the Pacific War""
Chapter Twelve: Elizabeth Thompson (University of Virgia)
"Gender, War and the Birth of States: Syrian and
Lebanese Women's Mobilization During World War II"
Chapter Thirteen: Antonella Fabri (Drew University)
"Silence, Invisibility, and Isolation: Mayan
Women's Strategies for Defense and Survival in Guatemala"
Chapter Fourteen: Carol Andreas (University of Colorado, Emeritus)
"It's Right to Fight": Women Insurgents in Peru"
Chapter Fifteen: Rhonda Copelon (CUNY Law School)
"Surfacing Gender: Reengraving Crimes Against
Women in Humanitarian Law"