In the decades following Europe’s first total war, millions of British men and women looked to the League of Nations as the symbol and guardian of a new world order based on international co-operation
In Keeping Women and Children Last, Ruth Sidel shows how America, in its search for a post-Cold War enemy, has turned inward to target single mothers on welfare, and how politicians have scapegoated a
In a book that radically and fundamentally revises the way we think about war, Miriam Cooke charts the emerging tradition of women's contributions to what she calls the "War Story,"
The dynamics of gendered power remain problematically under-theorized whenever women appear in the war on terror, say these feminist social scientists. They examine discourses about the Global War on
The author of Emma?s War offers a compelling account of the link between Muslim women?s rights, Islamist opposition to the West, and the Global War on Terror, as explored through the experiences of tw
Introducing readers to women whose Civil War experiences have long been ignored, Judith Giesberg examines the lives of working-class women in the North, for whom the home front was a battlefield of it
The true story of three young women who left their peaceful New England homes to undertake a harsh new life-as nurses taking care of Lincoln's soldiers in the aftermath of the Fort Sumter surr
From Margaret Atwood to Daisy Zamora, Simone de Beauvoir to Virginia Woolf, many of the world’s greatest women writers have reflected upon one of humanity’s most tragic and powerful experiences: war.
The declaration of war in 1917 and the attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese on December 7, 1941, stirred the men and women of Kane County, Illinois, to action and service. In World War I, many in Ka
Liverpool, 1945. Three women, the strongest of friends, return home, trying to fit back into their old lives after they've been demobbed. They've been thrown together by the war and shared all sorts o
Two women--one American, one Dutch--are brought together by a set of worn quilts, made by groups of women half-a-world away, that reveal the diverse stories of women during World War II, including tha
In this timely book, renowned criminologist and activist Renny Golden sheds light on the women behind bars and the 350,000 children they leave behind. In exposing the fastest growing prison population
