Militarized Women and Their Heraldry in the Press
Year: 2022

British Victorian women’s bodies were rarely the object of military scandal that they were in the American Civil War and in wars in the Empire. In those conflicts, women soldiers often enlisted in armies engaged in mass enlistment and total war. Limited enlistment, imperial wars, and barracks life meant that British women had few chances to put their bodies into the front lines of battle. Instead, some caused military scandals by drawing attention to military mistreatment of male bodies, such as