During the first 3 years of the War on Terror, women constituted approximately 10% of the US military and accounted for approximately 2% of its casualties. These deaths are not randomly distributed throughout the world – most of the wars since the 1960s have taken place in less-developed ...
On the face of it the Second World War represented a more significant and formative phase for British women than the Great War. They entered it as citizens of their country for the first time, and as such could expect to be called upon to play a more equal part in the war effort than...
The Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) was established in June 1939 with Miss Jane Trefusis-Forbes (1899-1971) as its first Director. In World War I she had been one of the first group of women to wear khaki; joining the Women's Volunteer Reserve, formed in 1914 to set more men fr...
Staged in brightly-colored balaclavas to conceal their identity, while punching & kicking the air in ‘punk defiance’, these feminist, pro-war phonies have existed under the protective wing of western imperialism for over a decade.A Punk Prayeris nothing more than a provocative publicity stunt ...
The purpose of this paper is to highlight the pioneering role of women who were officially employed (albeit on a temporary basis) in accounting, clerical and management positions in the Army Pay Department (APD) offices in the UK from 1914 to 1920. The role of the APD offices was to mana...
Her work explored family relationships, politics and philosophy during and after the Fascist years, World War II. Modest and intensely reserved, Ginzburg never shied away from the traumas of history, whether writing about the Turin of her childhood, the Abruzzi countryside or contemporary Rome—appr...
Women in a Man's World at the Forefront of War Reporting; Tributes Continue to Pour in for Terry Lloyd, the British Journalist Believed Killed in Iraq. It Highlights the Dangerous Role the Media Is Now Playing in the War, but What Was Traditionally Seen as a Male Preserve Is No Longer ...
Debates about the mobilisation of women into employment during both the First World War and the Second World War have become an integral element of modern British social history. The subject was extensively examined in works by Arthur Ma... B Hately-Broad,B Moore - Palgrave Macmillan UK 被引...
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