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Author : Lorry M. Fenner,Marie DeYoung
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015053123769
Studies the controversies surrounding women's presense in military combat.
Author : Rosemarie Skaine
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9798216166627
This handbook provides a straightforward account of how women have served in combat roles and explains the ongoing controversy surrounding efforts to legalize combat assignments for female service members. Women have been excluded from combat roles for most of American history. During conflicts such as the American Civil War, a few women enlisted as men; in some cases, their identities as women were not discovered until after their deaths. Today, the nontraditional battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan have no clearly defined front lines, and many female soldiers have found themselves face-to-face with the enemy. Yet despite the realities of modern warfare, the subject of women serving in combat roles remains highly controversial. Women in Combat: A Reference Handbook examines the historical background, current dilemmas, and global context of this contentious issue. The author explores both sides of the argument, presenting information from leading sources and gleaned from personal interviews. Statistical data, primary source documents, a directory of organizations, and print and electronic resources offer additional insight.
Author : Jeanne Holm
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : United States
ISBN : 0891415130
This revised edition of Maj. Gen Jeanne Holm's classic work on the history and role of women in the U.S. armed forces brings the reader up-to-date by covering the role of American military women in all post-Vietnam military operations -- including the recent Persian Gulf War. Just as important is her discussion of the changing role of women in the military during the 1980s and 1990s. Book jacket.
Author : Rosemarie Skaine
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780786481736
The Persian Gulf War changed the face of combat. It brought women’s military roles into the spotlight, in large part via the mass media, and showed that many women performed combat roles similar to those of men during the conflict. The war was thus an impetus for changes in laws that had prevented women from serving in combat assignments. In past centuries, because it was not culturally acceptable for women to serve in combat, surprising numbers joined secretly under assumed male names. After defining exactly what is meant by “war” and “combat,” this work presents historical and present-day views of the involvement of women in the military. The impact of regulations on women in combat is analyzed, as is the role of the American public in the controversy. Female combat is put into context with sociological theory; also discussed are readiness, cohesion, ability, sexuality, equal opportunity and family issues.
Author : Robert L. Maginnis
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781621571995
With an important introduction by C. Everett Koop and passionate endorsements from Senator Edward M. Kennedy and public officials from every major city in the U.S., this authoritative and timely guide calls for the diagnosis and treatment of urban violence as a public health crisis.
Author : Gerard J.De Groot,C Peniston-Bird
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317876441
The question of women's role in the military is extremely topical. A Woman and a Soldier covers the experiences of women in the military from the late mediaeval period to the present day. Written in two volumes this comprehensive guide covers a wide range of wars: The Thirty Years War, the French and Indian Wars in Northern America, the Anglo-Boer War, the First and Second World Wars, the Long March in China, and the Vietnam War. There are also thematic chapters, including studies of terrorism and contemporary military service. Taking a multidisciplinary approach: historical, anthropological, and cultural, the book shows the variety of arguments used to support or deny women's military service and the combat taboo. In the process the book challenges preconceived notions about women's integration in the military and builds a picture of the ideological and practical issues surrounding women soldiers.
Author : Helena Carreiras,Gerhard Kümmel
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2008-08-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783531909356
The debate about the role of women in war, violent conflict and the military is not only a long and ongoing one; it is also a heated and controversial one. The contributions to this anthology come from experts in the field who approach the topic from various angles thus offering different and, at times, diverging perspectives. The reader will therefore gain in-depth insight into the most important aspects and positions in the debate.
Author : James Wise,Scott Baron
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781612514079
Wise and Baron relate the compelling war experiences of thirty American female soldiers in the war zones of Iraq and Afghanistan, highlighting their extraordinary display of dedication to their mission and to the soldiers and sailors with whom they served. While the book's focus is on today's women in combat, it also reaches back to Korea, Vietnam and World War II to offer stories of inspiring women who served at the "cusp of the spear" as they fought and died for their country.
Author : Anna Krylova
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1107699401
Soviet Women in Combat explores the unprecedented historical phenomenon of Soviet young women's en masse volunteering for World War II combat in 1941 and writes it into the twentieth-century history of women, war, and violence. The book narrates a story about a cohort of Soviet young women who came to think about themselves as "women soldiers" in Stalinist Russia in the 1930s and who shared modern combat, its machines, and commanding positions with men on the Eastern front between 1941 and 1945. The author asks how a largely patriarchal society with traditional gender values such as Stalinist Russia in the 1930s managed to merge notions of violence and womanhood into a first conceivable and then realizable agenda for the cohort of young female volunteers and for its armed forces. Pursuing the question, Krylova's approach and research reveals a more complex conception of gender identities.
Author : Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780062333834
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From Gayle Tzemach Lemmon, author of the New York Times bestseller The Dressmaker of Khair Khana, comes the story of a unique team of women who answered the call to get as close to the fight as the Army had ever allowed women to be, including one beloved soldier who was killed serving her country’s cause In 2010, the Army created Cultural Support Teams, a secret pilot program to insert women alongside Special Operations soldiers battling in Afghanistan. The Army reasoned that women could play a unique role on Special Ops teams: accompanying their male colleagues on raids and, while those soldiers were searching for insurgents, questioning the mothers, sisters, daughters and wives living at the compound. Their presence had a calming effect on enemy households, but more importantly, the CSTs were able to search adult women for weapons and gather crucial intelligence. They could build relationships—woman to woman—in ways that male soldiers in an Islamic country never could. In Ashley's War, Gayle Tzemach Lemmon uses on-the-ground reporting and a finely tuned understanding of the complexities of war to tell the story of CST-2, a unit of women hand-picked from the Army to serve in this highly specialized and challenging role. The pioneers of CST-2 proved for the first time, at least to some grizzled Special Operations soldiers, that women might be physically and mentally tough enough to become one of them. The price of this professional acceptance came in personal loss and social isolation: the only people who really understand the women of CST-2 are each other. At the center of this story is a friendship cemented by "Glee," video games, and the shared perils and seductive powers of up-close combat. At the heart of the team is the tale of a beloved and effective soldier, Ashley White. Much as she did in her bestselling The Dressmaker of Khair Khana, Lemmon transports readers to a world they previously had no idea existed: a community of women called to fulfill the military's mission to "win hearts and minds" and bound together by danger, valor, and determination. Ashley's War is a gripping combat narrative and a moving story of friendship—a book that will change the way readers think about war and the meaning of service.
Author : Gerry Milligan
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487503147
Moral Combat explores dozens of primary texts to ask why women's militarism became one of the central discourses of sixteenth-century Italy.
Author : Richard Worth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : United States
ISBN : PSU:000051394844
Do women have what it takes to fight in combat? That is only one of the questions considered by author Richard Worth. From Joan of Arc and Molly Pitcher to Major Rhonda Cornum, who was captured during the Gulf War, women have played a key role in history's battles. However, today we are still debating whether women should serve in all the same capacities as men. This pro/con book looks at the many sides of this controversial issue.
Author : Sarah Percy
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781541619876
The definitive history of women in war, revealing how women have always been an essential part of combat From Boudicca’s rebellion to the war in Ukraine, battlefields have always contained a surprising number of women. Some formed all-female armies, like the Dahomey Mino of West Africa; some fought disguised as men; some mobilized in times of national survival, like the Soviet flying aces known as the Night Witches. International relations expert Sarah Percy unearths the stories of these forgotten warriors. She sets the historical record straight, revealing that women’s exclusion from active combat in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries is a blip in a much longer narrative of female inclusion. Deeply researched and brilliantly told, Forgotten Warriors turns the notion of war as a man’s game on its head and restores women to their rightful place on the front lines of history.
Author : Christopher R. Matthews,Alex Channon
Publisher : Springer
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137439369
This volume offers a wide-reaching overview of current academic research on women's participation in combat sports within a range of different national and trans-national contexts, detailing many of the struggles and opportunities experienced by women at various levels of engagement within sports such as boxing, wrestling, and mixed martial arts.
Author : Robert Egnell,Mayesha Alam
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781626166264
Women and Gender Perspectives in the Military compares the integration of women, gender perspectives, and the women, peace, and security agenda into the armed forces of eight countries plus NATO and United Nations peacekeeping operations. This book brings a much-needed crossnational analysis of how militaries have or have not improved gender balance, what has worked and what has not, and who have been the agents for change. The country cases examined are Sweden, the Netherlands, Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Israel, Australia, and South Africa. Despite increased opportunities for women in the militaries of many countries and wider recognition of the value of including gender perspectives to enhance operational effectiveness, progress has encountered roadblocks even nearly twenty years after United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 kicked off the women, peace, and security agenda. Robert Egnell, Mayesha Alam, and the contributors to this volume conclude that there is no single model for change that can be applied to every country, but the comparative findings reveal many policy-relevant lessons while advancing scholarship about women and gendered perspectives in the military.
