This volume explores how art and artifacts can tell women’s stories of war-a critical way into these stories often hidden due to the second-tier status of reporting women’s accomplishments. This unique lens reveals personal cultural and historically noteworthy experiences often not found in records manuscripts and texts. Nine stories from history are examined from the mythical Amazons of Ancient Greece to a female prisoner of war during World War II. Each of the social political and battlefield experiences of Penthesilea Artemisia Boudica the feminine cavaliers the Dahomey Amazons suffragists World War I medical corps and a World War II prisoner of war are intertwined with a particular work of art or an artifact. These include pottery iconographic images public sculpture stone engraving clothing decorative arts paintings and pulp art. While each story stands alone brought together in this volume they represent a cross-sectional reflection on the record of women and war. The chapters cover not only a diverse range of women from around the globe - the African continent the Hispanic territory of Europe Carian and Ancient Greece and Rome Iran Great Britain-Scotland-ancient Caledonia Western Europe and North America-but also a diverse choice of artwork and artifacts eras and the nature of the wars being fought. This book will be of value to those interested in gender across history and its interplay in the field of war. |Women and War Stories from the Amazons to the Greatest Generation through Art and Artifacts | History
