Women and War: A Historical Encyclopedia from Antiquity to the Present

Women have often been excluded from histories of warfare. A variety of reasons for this could be put forward: because histories are often written by men who wish to concentrate on the battlefield and tactics of war; because the role of women in war has not been considered of a great enough importance; or because war has been, and still is, very much considered a male arena. In the Foreword to Women and War Judith Bellafaire writes that even feminist writers have overlooked and discounted the role of women in war merely because it has not been of interest to...