Amazons And Military Maids

Author : Julie Wheelwright
Publisher : London : Pandora
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Amazons and Military Maids written by Julie Wheelwright and published by London : Pandora. This book was released on 1989 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study based on memoirs, letters, diaries and historical archives, tracing the careers of women from the 1700s who have lived and worked as men. The tensions that these women came to accept as the price of their tentative freedom aim to provide clues to the understanding of sexual roles.

Author : Julie Wheelwright
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9780044402565
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Amazons and Military Maids written by Julie Wheelwright and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1989 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on memoirs, letters and diaries, this compelling work exposes the hidden history of women who chose to live, work and love as men. Julie Wheelwright uncovers vibrant tales of adventure as women embark on grand journeys, search for lost loves or simply escape the dull confines of domestic life. She skillfully unravels their intriguing stories to show the price these women paid for their freedom, and how changing concepts of masculinity and femininity still marshal our behavior today. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Author : Julie Wheelwright
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472838017
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sisters in Arms written by Julie Wheelwright and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-20 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the British Army Book of the Year 2021. 'A long overdue assertion on the role of women on the battlefield. This book is going straight on my daughter's bookshelf.' Dan Snow, historian, TV presenter and broadcaster 'Sisters in Arms shows the many faces of women in combat – from the myths of the ancient world to the headline-grabbing conflicts of today – with a scrupulous attention to their different contexts, but a common compassion for their struggles and achievements.' Boyd Tonkin, journalist and author 'Wheelwright not only uncovers neglected female warriors, but she brings their temperaments, talents, fancies, and foibles to life.' Professor Joanna Bourke, Birkbeck, University of London Sisters in Arms charts the evolution of women in combat, from the Scythian warriors who inspired the Amazonian myth, to the passing soldiers and sailors of the eighteenth century, and on to the re-emergence of women as official members of the armed forces in the twentieth century. Author Julie Wheelwright traces our fascination with these forgotten heroines, using their own words, including official documents, diaries, letters and memoirs, to bring their experiences vividly to life. She examines their contemporary legacy and the current role of women in the armed forces, while calling into question the enduring relationship between masculinity and combat.

Author : Vern L. Bullough
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 9780812214314
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cross Dressing, Sex, and Gender written by Vern L. Bullough and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In any society, the perception of femininity and masculinity is not necessarily dependent on female or male genitalia. Cross dressing, gender impersonation, and long-term masquerades of the opposite sex are commonplace throughout history. In contemporary American culture, the behavior occurs most often among male heterosexuals and homosexuals, sometimes for erotic pleasure, sometimes not. In the past, however, cross dressing was for the most part practiced more often by women than men. Although males often burlesqued women and gave comic impersonations of them, they rarely attempted a change of public gender until the twentieth century. This phenomenon, according to Vern L. Bullough and Bonnie Bullough, has implications for any understanding of the changing relationships between the sexes in the twentieth century. In most Western societies, being a man and demonstrating masculinity is more highly prized than being a woman and displaying femininity. Some non-Western societies, however, are more tolerant and even encourage men to behave like women and women to act like men. Cross Dressing, Sex, and Gender not only surveys cross dressing and gender impersonation throughout history and in a variety of cultures but also examines the medical, biological, psychological, and sociological findings that have been presented in the modern scientific literature. This volume offers the results of the authors' research into contemporary gender issues and the search for explanations. After examining the various current theories regarding cross dressing and gender impersonation, the Bulloughs offer their own theory. This book, widely deemed a classic in its field, is the culmination of thirty years of research by the Bulloughs into gender impersonation and cross dressing. Their groundbreaking findings will be of interest to anyone involved in the debate over nature versus nurture, and have implications not only for scholars in the various social sciences and sex and gender studies, but for educators, nurses, physicians, feminists, gays, lesbians, and general readers. This work will be of more personal interest to anyone who identifies as a transvestite or transsexual or who has been classified by medical and psychiatric professionals as suffering from gender dysphoria. Cross Dressing, Sex, and Gender covers a wide range of cultures and periods. As the first comprehensive attempt to examine the phenomenon of cross dressing, it will be of interest to students and scholars of social history, sociology, nursing, and women's studies.

Author : Barton Hacker
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004212175
Total Pages : 678 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Women's Military History written by Barton Hacker and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-08-17 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume addresses the changing relationships between women and armed forces from antiquity to the present: eight chapters review the existing literature, an extended picture essay visually documents women’s military work, and eight chapters illustrate more restricted topics.

Author : Isabelle Baudino
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351887351
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Invisible Woman written by Isabelle Baudino and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most social historians writing about working women in pre-nineteenth century Britain have tended to concentrate on fairly large groups, such as factory workers or domestic servants, often in an attempt to reach some conclusions regarding their standards of living and social position. Another approach has lead feminist historians to search for underlying causes of women's exploitation through the locus of class and gender. Without ignoring these crucial issues, this volume written by cultural historians takes a slightly different approach, focusing on the status of small, sometimes tiny, groups of women holding marginal positions in the labour market, and often employed on an irregular basis. Women such as housekeepers, nurses, camp followers, governesses, actresses and musicians, to take some of the cases examined in this volume, generally did not have stable, permanent employment. Even female tradesmen often only worked for short periods of their lives. The temporary, unreliable character of such work can be partly related to the changing needs of women at different periods of their lives, but it also has much to do the status of women's work in eighteenth century British society. Providing case-studies of women's work in three different environments - middle and upper class households, male dominated communities and societies and the world of the arts - this collection asks fresh questions about women's aspirations and identity at various levels of society. In comparing and contrasting these varying spheres of female employment, this book throws in sharp relief the contrasting attitude to women's work inside and outside the home, and how the latter was often regarded as having a potentially destabilising and transgressive effect on British society.

Author : Jasper Heinzen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107198798
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making Prussians, Raising Germans written by Jasper Heinzen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-31 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An investigation into why the creation of nation-states coincided with bouts of civil war in the nineteenth-century Western world.

Author : Dáša Francíková
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498548091
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women as Essential Citizens in the Czech National Movement written by Dáša Francíková and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-05-31 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study uses the Czech national movement in the Austrian Empire between the late 1820s and the late 1850s to examine the complex set of social, physical, physiological, and moral requirements through which women became crucial social and political actors responsible for the existence of modern national communities. Situated within the larger frameworks of public and private spheres, contemporary Czech discussions of the positionality of women, and an understanding of the categories of gender and “woman” as fluid concepts, this book analyzes how Czech nationalists—in relation to and in comparison with other nineteenth-century nationalist movements—proposed that women become the central agents of the process to guarantee the continuity of the nation.

Author : Laura Brown
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801480959
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ends of Empire written by Laura Brown and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the representation of women in english literature from the Restoration to the fall of Walpole.

Author : Kathleen Ann Myers
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780195348095
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Neither Saints Nor Sinners written by Kathleen Ann Myers and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-08-07 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together the portraits and autobiographical texts of six 17th-century Latin American women, drawing on primary sources that include Inquisition and canonization records, confessional and mystic journals, and legal defenses and petitions.