Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military articles from September 2001

Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military archives from September 2001

"The weakest link": women in two Dutch peacekeeping units. (Articles).
September 22, 2001... abstract The aim of this article is to examine the experience of the Dutch female peacekeepers that serve in Bosnia and Kosovo and to analyze the ways in which they are envisaged and treated by their male peers and how they view...

Standing tall with Sarah Bowman: the Amazon of the Border. (Articles).
September 22, 2001... Since there are numerous and conflicting stories concerning Sarah Bowman, an American woman who accompanied General Zachary Taylor's army in the Mexican War from 1846 to 1848, it is sometimes hard to separate truth from folklore. It is...

Ann B. Carl. A WASP Among Eagles: a Woman Military Test Pilot in World War II.
September 22, 2001... Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1999. 132 pp. Photographs, index. $19.95 (cloth) ISBN 1-56098-899-1; $14.95 (paper), ISBN 1-56098-870-3. A Time To Remember A WASP Among Eagles: A Woman Military Test Pilot in World War II is...

Kazimiera J. Cottam, ed. Women in Air War: the Eastern Front of World War II.
September 22, 2001... Nepean, Ontario, Canada: New Military Publishing, 1997. 313 pp. Illustrations, translator's introduction, bibliography. $20.95 (paper) ISBN 0-9682702-1-2. Her Weapon Was An Aircraft The Soviet Armed Forces, in dire need of flyers at...

Kazimiera J. Cottam, ed. Women in War and Resistance: Selected Biographies of Soviet Women Soldiers.
September 22, 2001... Nepean, Ontario, Canada: New Military Publishing, 1998. 451 pp. Illustrations, notes, appendix, bibliography. $24.95 (paper), ISBN 0-9682702-2-0. Distaff Defense of the Eastern Front It is a common misconception that access of Soviet...

Sharon Hanly Disher. First Class: Women Join the Ranks at the Naval Academy.
September 22, 2001... Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1998. 361 pp. Index. No price listed (cloth), ISBN 1-557-50165-3. First Women At Annapolis Surprisingly, or perhaps not, none of the women who were members of the first gender-integrated class to...

Lettie Gavin. American Women in World War I.
September 22, 2001... Colorado: University Press of Colorado, 1999. xi + 240 pp. Map, chapter endnotes, appendices, and index. $32.50 (cloth), ISBN 0-87081-432-X. Reviewed for H-Minerva by Kay Sexton, Birkbeck College, University College, London In this...

Margaret Randolph Higonnet, Jane Jenson, Sonya Michel, and Margaret Collins Weitz, eds. Behind the Lines: Gender and the Two World Wars.
September 22, 2001... New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1987. 309 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $19.00 (paper), ISBN 0-300-03687-6. Reviewed for H-Minerva by Anne Kelsch, Department of History, University of North Dakota The...

Molly Merryman. Clipped Wings: the Rise and Fall of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs) of World War II.
September 22, 2001... New York: University Press, 1998. 237 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $20.00 (paper) ISBN 0-8124-75568-2. Reviewed for MINERVA by Rhonda L. Smith, Department of History, Eastern Kentucky University Women Airforce...

Josette Dermody Wingo. Mother Was a Gunner's Mate: World War II in the Waves.
September 22, 2001... Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1994. vii + 234 pp. $15.95 (paper), ISBN 1-557-50960-3. Reviewed for H-Minerva by Matthew J. Flynn, Ohio University A recounting of one woman's experience in World War II is a welcomed book in that...

Deborah Montgomerie. the Women's War: New Zealand Women 1939-45.
September 22, 2001... Auckland, New Zealand: Auckland Univeristy Press, 2001. 200 pp. Index. $24.95 (paper), ISBN 1-8694-0244-8. Reviewed for H-Minerva by Kathryn Spurling, School of History, University College (UNSW), Australian Defense Force Academy, Canberra,...

Donna M. Dean. Deep Six: a Novel of Life, Death, Deception, and Betrayal.
September 22, 2001... Palo Alto: Palo Alto Press, 2001. 208 pp. Index. $14.95 (paper) 1-8899-0119-9. Great Characters, Weak Story Deep Six is a novel that unfolds during the late 1940's in Marin City, California. It follows the course of a friendship...

Diane Burke Fessler. No Time for Fear: Voices of American Military Nurses in World War II.
September 22, 2001... University Press, 1996. xv + 280 pp. Bibliography, Further Reading and index, photographs, maps and cartoons. (Cloth), ISBN 0870134167; (paper) 080713440X. But For Them The War Might Have Been Worse When most people think of WWII, the...

Michele J. Nacy. Members of the Regiment: Army Officer's Wives on the Western Frontier, 1865-1890.
September 22, 2001... Contributions in American History. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2000. ix + 128 pp. Preface, bibliography, four appendixes, and index. $55.00 (cloth) ISBN 0-313-30998-1. One Sphere, One Army Divided into an introduction and eight...

Olga Gruhzit-Hoyt. A Time Remembered: American Women in the Vietnam War.
September 22, 2001... Novato, Calif.: Presidio Press, 1999. xi + 250 pp. Acknowledgments, introduction, illustrations, bibliographical references, and index. $27.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-89141-669-2. A Difficult Read A Time Remembered by Olga Gruhzit-Hoyt, is a...

Minerva's bookshelf.(Bibliography)
September 22, 2001... The Horror Trains: A Polish Woman Veteran's Memoirs of World War II. By Wanda E. Pomykalski ($50) An inspiring story of patriotism, courage, and endurance. After enduring captivity in Soviet prisons, Wanda became a woman soldier, assigned...

Letter to the Reader.
September 22, 2001... Dear Reader: With this issue, MINERVA has successfully completed nineteen years of independent publishing. The 2002 issues which are now in production will be MINERVA's 20th anniversary issues. This is as far into the future as we can see...