PATHFINDER: WOMEN IN THE MILITARY

Scope|Subject Headings|Circulating Books|Overview Sources|Periodicals, Journals & Trade Publications|Media|Web Sites

Scope: When we think of women serving in the military, we think of women participating on the sidelines in roles of nurse, clerk, or cook. In fact, women have been active participants in combat since the early years of conflict. Worldwide, women have had roles in service of their country. In the United States alone, many women have provided active service to our country behind enemy lines, during the Civil War, Korean War, World Wars I&II, in Vietnam, and more recently in Iraq. The role of women in the military is a controversial issue.
The purpose of this pathfinder is to serve as a guideline for student research. It is not intended as a comprehensive listing of all resources available in the library on this topic, but as a selective sampling of the many types of resources available.

SUBJECT HEADINGS

Books dealing with women in the military are listed in the Baddour Library’s online catalog under the following subject headings:

Women and the military—United States—History
Women soldiers—United States—History

There are sources located in the Reference Section of the Baddour Library that give a general overview or summary of the topic you are researching. The following is a list of some of the sources available in the library.

OVERVIEW SOURCES

REF U52.A44 2003 Amazons to Fighter Pilots: A Military Dictionary of Military Women

CIRCULATING BOOKS

Blanton, De Anne. They Fought Like Demons: Women Soldiers in the American Civil
War. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2002.

DeGroot, Gerard J. ad Corinna Peniton-Bird. A Soldier and a Woman: Sexual Integration in the Military. New York: Longman, 2000.

Enloe, Cynthia H. Does Khaki Become You?: The Mlitarization of Women’s Lives.
Boston, Mass: South End Press, 1983.

Enloe, Cynthia H. Maneuvers: The International Politics of Militarizing Women’s Lives. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.

Henderson, Aileen Kilgore. Stateside Soldier: Life in the Women’s Army Corps,
1944 1945. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2001.

Noggle, Anne. A Dance with Death: Soviet Airwomen in World War II. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1994.

Spears, Sally. Call Sign Revlon: The Life and Death of Navy Fighter Pilot Kara Hultgreen. Annapolis, Md: Naval Institute Press, 1998.

Witt, Linda. A Defense Weapon Known to Be of Value: Servicewomen of the Korean War Era. Hanover: University Press of New England, 2005.

PERIODICALS, JOURNALS & TRADE PUBLICATIONS

Click the link for a list of full text journals available through our databases in:

History—General
 

MEDIA
 

Videos

Video 1189 G.I. Jane (motion picture)

WEB SITES

Facts about Women in the Military, 1980-1990
http://feminism.eserver.org/women-in-the-military.txt

The Minerva Center (Educational Foundation Supporting the Study of Women in War)
http://www.minervacenter.com/

Updated 06/13/2007