Women in the United States Military

Judith Bellafaire is the Chief Historian at the Women in Military Service For America Memorial. She served for seven years as Historian for the U.S. Army Center for Military History in Washington, D.C.

'In a tightly structured work where pithy annotations are set within richly detailed essays, each defining a time period and circumstance surrounding women in the U.S. military, Judith Bellafaire has created a credible contribution to the burgeoning literature on women in military life ... Women in the United States Military is a solid reference work, useful in itself as a historical survey, and is highly recommended for both research and general collections.'– Feminist Collections

• IntroductionChapter 1 - Women in Defense of the Nation across the CenturiesChapter 2 - Early Patriots: Military Women from the American Revolution to the Civil WarChapter 3 - Women and the American Civil War: More than ExpectedChapter 4 - Women on the Western Frontier: Few and Far BetweenChapter 5 - Spanish American War Nurses: Proving Themselves of ValueChapter 6 - World War I: Women Volunteers Establish Parameters of ServiceChapter 7 - World War II Women: Bedpans, Typewriters and LipstickChapter 8 - The Korean War: Women Serving Under the Protection of Uncle SamChapter 9 -The Vietnam War: The Nurse Heroine and Her Forgotten Sister Chapter 10 - The All Volunteer Force through the 1980s: How Many Women Is TooChapter 11 - Operations DESERT SHIELD and DESERT STORM and the 1990sChapter 12 - The All Volunteer Force and the War on Terror