Books From Amazon:
Soldier Girls: The Battles of Three Women at Home and at War--Available
By: Helen Thorpe
Description: From an award-winning, “meticulously observant” (The New Yorker), and “masterful” (Booklist) writer comes a groundbreaking account of three women deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq, and how their military service affected their friendship, their personal lives, and their families.'
Women in the Military: An Unfinished Revolution--Available
By: Jeanne Holm
Description: The first comprehensive historical survey of women in the American armed forces....Eloquent, inspiring and richly informative. --Publishers Weekly
Flying for Her Country: The American and Soviet Women Military Pilots of World War II --Available
Description: During the Second World War, women pilots were given the opportunity to fly military aircraft for the first time in history. In the United States, famed aviatrix Jacqueline Cochran formed the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) program, where over one thousand women flyers ferried aircraft from factories to airbases throughout the United States and Canada from 1942 to 1944.
Band of Sisters: American Women at War in Iraq--Available
By: Kirsten Holstedt
Description: Band of Sisters presents a dozen groundbreaking and often heart-wrenching stories of American women in combat in Iraq, such as the U.S.'s first female pilot to be shot down and survive, the military's first black female pilot in combat, a young turret gunner defending convoys, and a nurse struggling to save lives, including her own.
Undaunted: The Real Story of America's Servicewomen in Today's Military--Available
By: Tanya Biank
Description: Since 9/11, more than 240,000 women have fought in Iraq and Afghanistan—more than 140 have died there, and they currently make up fourteen percent of the total active-duty forces. Despite advances, today’s servicewomen are constantly pressed to prove themselves, to overcome challenges men never face
The Forgotten Women Heroes: Second World War Untold Stories - The Women Heroes in the Extraordinary World War Two--Only available on Amazon
By: Scott S.F. Meaker
Description: These women have been footnotes in history and at least one of them was a model for women in James Bond books and movies. The women however have remained in the shadows of the stories of the Second World War. These women fade into history even though their actions were crucial in changing the outcome of the war.
Women in the Line of Fire: What You Should Know About Women in the Military--Available
By: Erin Solaro
Description: In 2004, Erin Solaro went to Iraq to study American servicewomen — what they were doing, how well they were doing it, how they were faring in combat. In 2005, she went to Afghanistan on the same mission. Having spent time embedded with combat troops and conducting stateside interviews with numerous analysts and veterans, Solaro is convinced that the time to drop all remaining restrictions on women's full equality under arms is now.
A Civilian's Guide to the U.S. Military: A comprehensive reference to the customs, language and structure of the Armed Forces--Available
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Does a corporal have to salute a lieutenant or is it the other way around? What are forward-deployed units? Is an "armored cow" a type of tank or something soldiers eat? Are Polaris missiles dropped from the air or launched from a submarine? If someone calls you a "Cat 4" should you be honored or offended?
Myths Of Gender: Biological Theories About Women And Men, Revised Edition--Available
By: Anne Fausto- Sterling
Description: By carefully examining the biological, genetic, evolutionary, and psychological evidence, a noted biologist finds a shocking lack of substance behind ideas about biologically based sex differences. Features a new chapter and afterward on recent biological breakthroughs.
Women in the Military: Flirting With Disaster--
By: Brian Mitchell
Description: Army veteran Brian Mitchell shatters stock Pentagon assurances to reveal that women have had a profoundly negative effect on U.S. fighting capabilities.
Interesting! This list looks pretty good--wide ranging, from different viewpoints, about different aspects of the topic...
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