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Hiding in Plain Sight: Women Warriors throughout Time and Space takes the many, long-standing dimensions of military history, including the various modalities of warfare across cultures and periods, and integrates them with the more recent and very substantial contributions of social history, women's history, black history, feminist theory, LGBTQ community, and other perspectives. By providing an extensive annotated bibliography of the new findings, the work provides the reader with an exciting compilation of new knowledge placed within a longstanding military historical framework, one which provides a broader study and understanding of warfare into which to put the very recent, disparate findings culled from many disciplines.
The book reaffirms that women have long been deeply embedded in the practice of warfare, not simply as victims or minor curiosities, but as important actors-tactically, strategically, in combat, and directing warfare from afar-just as their male counterparts. The concomitant amalgam also shows that certain types and patterns of warfare such as the defense of castles and fortresses, commanding a ship or a fleet, revolutionary warfare, and today's drone and cyber-forms of warfare have been more conducive to female activity than other forms of warfare, even as women are also present in a wider variety of other broader temporal and geographical dimensions of the history of warfare.
Hiding in Plain Sight is the only extensive annotated bibliography currently available which provides such a holistic overview of recent scholarship by grounding that scholarship in the existing military canon and history.
List of contents
Preface
Part IHiding in Plain Sight
The Context of War
Women's Place in War
Providing Background and Context
The Wide Range of Women Warriors
By Location
By Typology
By Amount of Source Material
By Degree of Author's Interest
Conclusion
Footnotes
Part II Select Annotated Bibliography
A-D
E- K
L-0
P- S
T-Z
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About the author
Christian P. Potholm is the DeAlva Stanwood Alexander Professor of Government at Bowdoin College. He has taught courses on war and international relations for over 50 years and is the author of numerous books on warfare, including the War Quartet: Winning at War: The Template of Mars, War Wisdom: A Cross-Country Analysis, Understanding War: An Annotated Bibliography, and Hiding in Plain Sight: Women Warriors throughout Time and Space.
