Battle cries and lullabies : women in war from prehistory to the present
Linda Grant De Pauw (Author)
In this work, which covers thousands of years and spans the globe, Linda Grant DePauw explores the varied roles women have played in war. De Pauw depicts women as victims and as warriors; as nurses, spies, sex workers, and wives and mothers of soldiers; as warrior queens leading armies into battle, and as baggage carriers marching in the rear
1 online resource (xvii, 395 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates ): photographs.
9780806170749, 0806170743
1319048910
Introduction: definitions and presuppositions
Prehistory
Classical warfare
European warfare
The age of revolution
Nineteenth-century warfare
The age of imperialism
The Great War
The Second World War
The Cold War
Third world wars