Table of Contents

ONE Soldiers, Saints, or Sacrificial Lambs? Womens Relationship to Combat and the Fortification of the Home Front in the Twentieth Century PART I 1914–1939 TWO Tortured and Exalted by War: French Catholic Women, 1914– 1918, THREE The Great War and Modern Motherhood: La Maternité and the Bombing of Paris FOUR The Enemy Within: The Problem of British Womens Sexuality During the First World War FIVE Why We Joined the Revolution: Voices of Chinese Women Soldiers PART II 1940–1945 SIX Surviving the German Invasion of France: Women’s Stories of the Exodus of 1940 SEVEN The Womanly Face of War: Soviet Women Remember World War II EIGHT A Question of Silence: The Rape of German Women by Soviet Occupation Soldiers NINE The Lesbian Threat: Within the World War II Women’s Army Corps TEN The Silent Significant Minority: Japanese-American Women, Evacuation, and Internment During World War II ELEVEN Turning Women into Weapons: Japan’s Women, the Battle of Saipan, and the "Nature of the Pacific War" PART III 1946-PRESENT TWELVE Gender, War, and the Birth of States: Syrian and Lebanese Women’s Mobilization During World War II THIRTEEN Silence, Invisibility, and Isolation: Mayan Womens Strategies for Defense and Survival in Guatemala FOURTEEN "It s Right to Fight": Women Insurgents in Peru FIFTEEN Surfacing Gender: Reengraving Crimes Against Women in Humanitarian Law

About the Author

Nicole Ann Dombrowski received her Ph.D. in modern European history from New York University in 1995. She is currently finishing a book Families Under Fire: French Civilians and the German Invasion of France, 1940–1942 which analyzes the French state s provisions for civilian security during World War II.

Reviews

"The expansive nature of this volume makes it important for military and women's historians in need of comparative perspective." -- Journal of Women's History