Images of women in peace and war
Subtitle: cross-cultural and historical perspectives
By: edited by Sharon Macdonald, Pat Holden, and Shirley Ardener.
Contributors: Macdonald, Sharon.; Holden, Pat.; Ardener, Shirley.
Series: Women in society; Women in society (Houndmills, Basingstoke, England)
Publisher: Macmillan Education in association with the Oxford University Women's Studies Committee
Published: 1987
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
Subjects: Women and the military.; Women and war.
Notes: Includes bibliographies and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Drawing the lines; title: gender, peace, and war / Sharon Macdonald; title: Images of Amazons / Ilse Kirk; title: Boadicea / Sharon Macdonald; title: Women and ritual conflict in Inka society / Penny Dransart; title: Kikuyu women and the politics of protest / Tabitha Kanogo; title: Women soldiers and white unity in apartheid South Africa / Elaine Unterhalter; title: Living with images of a fighting elite / Rosemary McKechnie; title: Women and the pacification of men in New Guinea / Jessica Mayer; title: Passive in war? / Margaret Brooks; title: Perceptions of 'Peace women' at Greenham Common 1981-5 / Lynne Jones; title: 'Did your mother wear army boots?' / Ruth Roach Pierson.