Mobilizing Minerva: American Women in the First World War

Mobilizing Minerva: American Women in the First World War analyzes the strategies of female physicians, nurses, and women-at-arms who linked military service with the opportunity to achieve professional and civic goals. Since women armed to defend the state during war could also protect themselves, Kimberly Jensen argues, Americans began to focus on women's relationship to violence—both its wielding against women and women's uses of it. Intense discussions of rape, methods of protecting wom...