Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military articles from September 2002

Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military archives from September 2002

Band of sisters: the Amazon light cavalry.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Steven Pressfield. Last of the Amazons. New York: Doubleday, 2002. 396 pp. Map, author's notes. $24.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-385-50098-X. I've never been an Amazon but Steven Pressfield sure made me feel like one. In Last of the Amazons he...

Letters home from a stateside WAC, 1944-1945.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Aileen Kilgore Henderson. Stateside Soldier: Life in the Women's Army Corps, 1944-1945. Women's Diaries and Letters of the South Series. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2001. 252 pp. Illustrations and index. $24.95 (cloth), ISBN...

Women spies of World War II.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Elizabeth P. McIntosh. Sisterhood of Spies: The Women of the OSS. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1998. xiv + 282 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $27.00 (cloth), ISBN 1-55750-598-5. Elizabeth McIntosh's Sisterhood of Spies details the...

Expanding the literary canon: nurses' memoirs of World War I.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Margaret Randolph Higonnet. Nurses at the Front: Writing the Wounds of the Great War. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2001. x + 161 pp. Notes. $40.00 (cloth), ISBN 1-55553-485-6; $16.95 (paper), ISBN 1-55553-484-8. In recent years a...

Only connect.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Nicole Ann Dombrowski, ed. Women and War in the Twentieth Century: Enlisted With or Without Consent. Women's History and Culture. New York: Garland, 1999. x + 377 pp. Photographs, notes, index. $59.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-8153-2287-9. In Women...

The feminine essence and France's National Revolution.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Francine Muel-Dreyfus. Vichy and the Eternal Feminine: A Contribution to a Political Sociology of Gender. Translated by Kathleen A. Johnson. Durham: Duke University Press, 2001. x + 388 pp. Photos, notes, index. $64.95 (cloth), ISBN...

Mythologizing Cathy Williams.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Phillip Thomas Tucker. Cathy Williams: From Slave to Female Buffalo Soldier. Mechanicsburg: Stackpole Books, 2002. vii + 258 pp. Appendix, notes, bibliography, index. $26.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-8117-0340-1. The story of Cathy Williams begins...

Bring me men--or an equivalent thereof.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Kelly Flinn. Proud To Be: My Life, The Air Force, The Controversy. New York: Random House, 1997. 259 pp. Photographs. $23.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-375-50109-6. Kelly Flinn was born to an Irish Catholic family, the youngest with four much older...

Frauleins and soldiers.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Maria Hohn. GIs and Frauleins: The German American Encounter in 1950s West Germany. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. xiii + 337 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $59.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-8078-2706-1; $22.50 (paper),...

Growing up as a global nomad.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Morten G. Ender, ed. Military Brats and Other Global Nomads: Growing Up in Organization Families. Westport and London: Praeger, 2002. 253 pp. Tables, notes, bibliographical references, index. $64.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-275-97266-6. There are...

To sail the seven seas--or not.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Susan H. Godson. Serving Proudly: A History of Women in the U.S. Navy. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2002. xvi + 512 pp. Photographs, notes, bibliography, index. $38.95 (cloth), ISBN 1-55750-317-6. This book is somewhat unusual in that...

We also served.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Brenda L. Moore. To Serve My Country, To Serve My Race: The Story of the Only African American WACs Stationed Overseas during World War II. New York: New York University Press, 1996. 272 pp. Photographs, tables and figures, appendices,...

Duty, career and family life within the ranks.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... James A. Martin, Leora N. Rosen, and Linette R. Sparacino, eds. The Military Family: A Practice Guide for Human Service Providers. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2000. 282 pp. Index. $64.94 (cloth), ISBN 0-275-96540-6. The Military...

Only the beginning: short biographies of four Women Scientists.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Kathleen Broome Williams. Improbable Warriors: Women Scientists and the U.S. Navy in World War II. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 2001. 304 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $34.95 (cloth), ISBN 1-55750-961-1. ...

The enemy within.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... T.S. Nelson. For Love of Country: Confronting Rape and Sexual Harassment in the U.S. Military. Binghamton and London: The Haworth Maltreatment and Trauma Press, 2002. xv + 302 pp. Bibliography, index. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-7890-1221-9; $24.95...

Bibliographies of women and the military in history.(Bibliography)
September 22, 2002... Ancient / Late Antiquity Baron, Salo Wittmayer. A social and religious history of the Jews. 2nd, rev. and enl. ed. New York: Columbia University Press, 1952. Blashfield, Jean F. Hellraisers, Heroines, and Holy Women. New York:...