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Images of Women in Peace and War

Cross-cultural and Historical Perspectives

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  • © 1987
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Editors:
  1. Sharon Macdonald

    1. St Catherine’s College, Institute of Social Anthropology, Oxford, UK

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  2. Pat Holden

    1. Centre for Cross-Cultural Research on Women, Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford, UK

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  3. Shirley Ardener

    1. Centre for Cross-Cultural Research on Women, Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford, UK

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Part of the book series: Women in Society (WOSO)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  2. Drawing the lines — gender, peace and war: an introduction

    • Sharon Macdonald
    Pages 1-26

  3. Images of Amazons: marriage and matriarchy

    • Ilse Kirk
    Pages 27-39

  4. Boadicea: warrior, mother and myth

    • Sharon Macdonald
    Pages 40-61

  5. Women and ritual conflict in Inka society

    • Penny Dransart
    Pages 62-77

  6. Kikuyu women and the politics of protest: Mau Mau

    • Tabitha Kanogo
    Pages 78-99

  7. Women soldiers and white unity in apartheid South Africa

    • Elaine Unterhalter
    Pages 100-121

  8. Living with images of a fighting elite: women and the Foreign Legion

    • Rosemary McKechnie
    Pages 122-147

  9. Women and the pacification of men in New Guinea

    • Jessica Mayer
    Pages 148-165

  10. Passive in war? Women internees in the Far East 1942–5

    • Margaret Brooks
    Pages 166-178

  11. Perceptions of ‘Peace Women’ at Greenham Common 1981–85: A participant’s View

    • Lynne Jones
    Pages 179-204

  12. ‘Did your mother wear army boots?’ Feminist theory and women’s relation to war, peace and revolution

    • Ruth Roach Pierson
    Pages 205-227

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 229-240
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Editors and Affiliations

  • St Catherine’s College, Institute of Social Anthropology, Oxford, UK

    Sharon Macdonald

  • Centre for Cross-Cultural Research on Women, Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford, UK

    Pat Holden

  • Centre for Cross-Cultural Research on Women, Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford, UK

    Shirley Ardener

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Images of Women in Peace and War

  • Book Subtitle: Cross-cultural and Historical Perspectives

  • Editors: Sharon Macdonald, Pat Holden, Shirley Ardener

  • Series Title: Women in Society

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-18894-9

  • Publisher: Red Globe Press London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Macmillan Publishers Limited 1987

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XX, 240

  • Additional Information: Previously published under the imprint Palgrave

  • Topics: Sociology, general

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