Hornet’s Nest: The Experiences of One of the Navy’s First Female Fighter Pilots. – Review – book review Gioia Grasso Hornet’s Nest: The Experiences of One of the Navy’s First Female Fighter Pilots. San Jose, New York, Lincoln, Shanghai: Writer’s Showcase, 1999. xvii + 395 pp. Glossary and notes. $19.95 (paper), ISBN 0-595-00190-4. Reviewed for […]
Category: Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military
Women in the Russian Armed Forces: A Marriage of Convenience? – Statistical Data Included Jennifer G. Mathers `History demonstrates that the number of women in the armed forces increases when society is in extreme conditions. The current situation in Russia exactly corresponds to that definition … In such a situation it is completely intolerable to […]
The feminine essence and France’s National Revolution – Book Review Rebecca Pulju 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 0-8223-2777-5; $21.95 (paper), ISBN 0-8223-2774-0. In Vichy and […]
Bibliographies of women and the military in history – Bibliography Reina Pennington 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: Superlative House, 1981. Blok, Josine H. The […]
Band of sisters: the Amazon light cavalry – Book Review Bob Gross 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 schooled me in their […]
Frauleins and soldiers – Book Review Richard A. Voeltz 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), ISBN 0-8078-5375-5. Rather Werner Fassbinders’ film The Marriage of Maria […]
Growing up as a global nomad – Book Review Josette Dermody Wingo 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 forty thousand Americans in Saudi Arabia as of the latest […]
Women in the Hungarian Armed Forces Judit Bolgar The number of professional and contractual female soldiers in the Hungarian Armed Forces increased annually during the 1990s. The growth in the number of female soldiers in ensign and junior officer positions was especially noteworthy. Presently women make almost 25 percent of the officers and ensign force. […]
Donna M. Dean. Deep Six: a Novel of Life, Death, Deception, and Betrayal Amy Efaw 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 developed between […]
Maneuvers. The International Politics of Militarizing Women’s Lives – Review Daniela Rechenberger Cynthia Enloe. Maneuvers. The International Politics of Militarizing Women’s Lives. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2000. xi + 418 pp. Notes, selected bibliography, and index. $17.95 (paper) 0-520-22071-4; $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-520-22070-6. Are You Already Militarized Today? When we think of women’s […]