HIST 263 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Cross-Dressing
23 Jan 2017
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Identify the major assignments for and against female participation in the military. Assess the validity of these arguments through debate and discussion. Women as rulers: if a woman was ruling during war, she was involved in the direct application of violence either by giving orders herself or by allowing herself to be the military. Women as messianic military leaders: in rare instances women have been military leaders in their own right. Women as individual soldiers: throughout military history, a number of soldiers have been discovered to be women, throughout history, these individuals were usually cross-dressing at the time. Women as camp followers: women historically played many roles by traveling with armies on campaign, such as cooking, cleanings, washing, nursing and providing sex to soldiers. World war i and world war ii: the rise of mass armies demanded new roles for civilians including civilian women, women were originally mobilized as a way to free men for combat roles.
