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Covering thousands of years and spanning the globe, Linda Grant De Pauw explores the varied roles women have played in war, as warriors, nurses, spies, sex workers, wives, mothers of soldiers, sex workers, leaders of armies into battle and as baggage carriers marching in the rear. 24 illustrations.

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title:Battle Cries and Lullabies : Women in War From Prehistory to the Present
author:De Pauw, Linda Grant.
publisher:University of Oklahoma Press
isbn10 | asin:0806131004
print isbn13:9780806131009
ebook isbn13:9780806170749
language:English
subjectWomen and war, Military history.
publication date:1998
lcc:D25.5.D44 1998eb
ddc:355/.0082
subject:Women and war, Military history.
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Battle Cries and Lullabies
Women in War from Prehistory to the Present
by Linda Grant De Pauw
UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA PRESS: NORMAN
Page iv
Also by Linda Grant De Pauw
The Eleventh Pillar: New York State and the Federal Constitution (Ithaca, New York, 1966)
Founding Mothers: Women of America in the Revolutionary Era (Boston, 1975)
"Remember the Ladies": Women in America 17501815 (Boston, 1976)
Seafaring Women (Boston, 1982)
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
De Pauw, Linda Grant.
Battle cries and lullabies : women in war from prehistory to the
present / by Linda Grant De Pauw.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-8061-3100-4 (cloth : alk. paper)
1. Women and war. 2. Military history. I. Title.
D25.5.D44 1998Picture 2Picture 3Picture 4Picture 598-21219
355'.0082dc21Picture 6Picture 7Picture 8Picture 9CIP
The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources, Inc. Copyright 1998 by the University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Publishing Division of the University. All rights reserved. Manfactured in the U.S.A.
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To Debra E. Morgenstern,
my faithful second in command at The MINERVA Center, Inc.
We've weathered the storm together.
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Contents
List of Illustrations
xi
Preface
xv
Acknowledgments
xiii
Chapter One
Introduction: Definitions and Presuppositions.
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What Is a Woman?
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What Is War?
9
Picture 12
Finding the Women in War
16
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A Note on History and Public Policy
25
Chapter Two
Prehistory
26
Picture 14
One Hundred Thousand Years of Peace
27
Picture 15
Learning War
33
Picture 16
Old Testament Wars
36
Picture 17
Assyrians
36
Picture 18
Egyptians
42
Picture 19
Libyan Amazons
43
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Scythian Amazons
46
Picture 21
The Trojan War
48
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The Amazonomachy
52
Chapter Three
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