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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Rani of Jhansi Regiment was the Women's Regiment of the Indian National Army. Led by Capt Lakshmi Swaminathan, the unit was raised in July 1943 with volunteers from expatriate Indian population in South East Asia. The initial nucleus of the force was established with its training camp in Singapore with approximately a hundred and seventy cadets. The cadets were given ranks of non-commissioned officers or Privates according to their education. Later, camps were established in Rangoon and Bangkok and by November 1943, the unit had more than 300 cadets. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Parameters, published by Thomson Gale on June 22, 2007. The length of the article is 988 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Women in the Line of Fire: What You Should Know about Women in the Military.(Book review)
Author: Richard Halloran
Publication: Parameters (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 22, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 37Issue: 2Page: 111(3)

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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's large-scale digitization efforts. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the original text that can be both accessed online and used to create new print copies. The Library also understands and values the usefulness of print and makes reprints available to the public whenever possible. This book and hundreds of thousands of others can be found in the HathiTrust, an archive of the digitized collections of many great research libraries. For access to the University of Michigan Library's digital collections, please see http://www.lib.umich.edu and for information about the HathiTrust, please visit http://www.hathitrust.org ... Read more

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The question of women's role in the military is extremely topical. A Woman and a Soldier covers the experiences of women in the military from the late mediaeval period to the present day. Written in two volumes this comprehensive guide covers a wide range of wars: The Thirty Years War, the French and Indian Wars in Northern America, the Anglo-Boer War, the First and Second World Wars, the Long March in China, and the Vietnam War. There are also thematic chapters, including studies of terrorism and contemporary military service. Taking a multidisciplinary approach: historical, anthropological, and cultural, the book shows the variety of arguments used to support or deny women's military service and the combat taboo. In the process the book challenges preconceived notions about women's integration in the military and builds a picture of the ideological and practical issues surrounding women soldiers. ... Read more

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Essential reading on women in the military
This collection should be required reading for anyone interested in the history of women's roles in the military. The chapters cover such varied topics as women on the Long March, British nurses in the Boer War, women in Algeria and Israel, and sexual harassment and fraternization in the US army.These essays are both rigorously researched and well written.This is a valuable book and deserves more attention than it has received. ... Read more

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U.S. military personnel are required to adhere to standards of body composition, fitness, and appearance to achieve and maintain readiness - that is, the maintenance of optimum health and performance so they are ready for deployment at any moment. In 1992, the Committee on Military Nutrition Research reviewed the existing standards and found, among other things, that the standards for body composition required for women to achieve an appearance goal seemed to conflict with those necessary to ensure the ability to perform many types of military tasks. This report addresses that conflict, and reviews and makes recommendations about current policies governing body composition and fitness, as well as postpartum return-to-duty standards, Military Recommended Dietary Allowances, and physical activity and nutritional practices of military women to determine their individual and collective impact on the health, fitness, and readiness of active-duty women. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from American Review of Canadian Studies, published by Association for Canadian Studies in the United States on June 22, 1999. The length of the article is 1079 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Wives and warriors: women and the military in the United States and Canada.
Publication: American Review of Canadian Studies (Refereed)
Date: June 22, 1999
Publisher: Association for Canadian Studies in the United States
Volume: 29Issue: 2Page: NA

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Articles on Romancing the Gravestone; Publish Your Genealogy on Video; An Unsolved Mystery; Finding Women in Federal Military Records. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Women have served in Australian armed forces since 1899. Until World War II women were restricted to the Australian Army Nursing Service. This role expanded in 1941-42 when the Royal Australian Navy (RAN), Australian Army and Royal Australian Air Force established female branches in which women took on a range of support roles. While these organisations were disbanded at the end of the war, they were reestablished in 1950 as part of the military's permanent structure. Women were integrated into the services during the late 1970s and early 1980s and can now serve in most positions in the Australian Defence Force (ADF), including combat roles. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy, published by Thomson Gale on May 1, 2007. The length of the article is 12373 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Women in the sphere of masculinity: the double-edged sword of women's integration in the military.
Author: Noya Rimalt
Publication: Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 1, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 14Issue: 2Page: 1097(23)

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This digital document is an article from The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, published by Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Assn. on November 1, 2003. The length of the article is 728 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Deborah Harrison, The First Casualty: Violence Against Women in Canadian Military Communities.(Book Review)
Author: Jane Gordon
Publication: The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology (Refereed)
Date: November 1, 2003
Publisher: Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Assn.
Volume: 40Issue: 4Page: 490(3)

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Clare Stevenson, Mary Bell, Women in the Australian Military, Sybil Irving, Elizabeth Cosson, Julie Hammer, Vivian Bullwinkel, Jackie Kelly, Linda Corbould, Kathleen Best, Eleanor Manning, Beryl Beaurepaire, Pat Darling, Betty Jeffrey, Joanne Mein. Excerpt:Dame Beryl Beaurepaire , AC , DBE (born 24 September 1923) is an Australian feminist . She was born Beryl Edith Bedggood in Camberwell , Victoria and educated at Fintona Girls' School . . She served as a meteorological officer in the Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force from early 1942 to late 1945. She married Ian Francis Beaurepaire in 1946, and then became involved in political and charity work. Both her husband and her father-in-law Frank Beaurepaire have been Lord Mayor of Melbourne . From 1974 to 1976 she served as Chairman of the Federal Women's Committee of the Liberal Party of Australia . From 1985 to 1993 she was Chairman of the Australian War Memorial Council. Honours Bery Beaurepaire was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1975 and made a Dame Commander of the order in 1981. She was appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia in 1991. She was awarded the Centenary Medal in 2001. References (URLs online) Websites (URLs online) A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Agnes Betty Jeffrey, OAM (14 May 1908 13 September 2000) was a nurse in the 2/10th Australian General Hospital during World War II ; she was taken captive by the Japanese Imperial Army and interned. She later wrote about her experiences in the book White Coolies , which partially inspired the film Paradise Road . Bibliography References (URLs online) A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Clare Grant Stevenson Clare Grant Stevenson AM , MBE (18 July 1903 22 October 1988) was the inaugural Director of the... ... Read more

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Chapters: Anne, Princess Royal, Kelly Holmes, Kate Nesbitt, Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark, Kit Cavanagh, Christian Davies, Frances Isabella Duberly, Sarah Bryant, Katharine Mary Briggs, Nancy Spain, Michelle Norris, Ursula Appolloni, Alice Strike, Leslie Whateley, Philippa Tattersall, Mary Stewart, Baroness Stewart of Alvechurch, Denise Rose, Ruth Bidgood. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 77. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Anne, Princess Royal (Anne Elizabeth Alice Louise; born 15 August 1950), is the only daughter of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. At the time of her birth, she was third, and later for a few years was second in the line of succession to the thrones of seven independent states; however, after additions to the Royal Family, and an evolution of the Commonwealth, Anne is currently tenth in line to the thrones of 16 countries. She is resident in and most directly involved with the United Kingdom, the oldest realm, while also carrying out duties in and on behalf of the other states of which her mother is sovereign. The seventh holder of the title Princess Royal, Anne is known for her charitable work, being the patron of over 200 organisations, and she carries out about 700 royal engagements and public appearances per year. Princess Anne is also known for equestrian talents; she won two silver and one gold medal at the European Eventing Championships, and is the only member of the British Royal Family to have competed in the Olympic Games. She is presently married to Vice-Admiral Timothy Laurence, and has two children from her previous marriage to Mark Phillips. Anne was born at Clarence House on 15 August 1950, the second child and first daughter of then Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Edinburgh, and Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, and secon...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=125231 ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Military Thought, published by Thomson Gale on July 1, 2006. The length of the article is 1621 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Urgent problems of women's involvement in military service in the armed forces of CIS countries.
Author: E.A. Strenina
Publication: Military Thought (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 15Issue: 3Page: 99(4)

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Chapters: Ancient Roman Military Personnel, Hellenistic Military Personnel, Women in Ancient Warfare, Boudica, Cartimandua, Timeline of Women in Ancient Warfare, Demetrius of Pharos, Amanitore, Sophonisba, Amanirenas, Cordelia of Britain, Amastris, Clodia Pulchra, Isidore of Chios, Aretaphila of Cyrene, Queen Gwendolen, Chiomara, Vishpala, Amage, Amanishabheto. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 77. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Warfare throughout written history mainly has been portrayed in modern times as a matter for men, but women also have played a role. Until very recently, little mention of these exploits was included in the historical records made available in most countries. Female deities, whose origins predate historical records, are present in most early cultures. Often they were portrayed as warriors, which signals a pervasive presence of women among such activities prior to a profound change in many human cultures after the adoption of agriculture as the typical sustenance (and which enabled protracted warfare with large armies). Their influences, the roles of women rulers, and those of significant women warriors, were retained in many of these cultures so strongly that no layers of new legends, ideals, and myths were able to obscure them completely. The following is a partial list of prominent women who participated in warfare, as well as the tales of many women warriors and their exploits, which was assembled from the fragmentary beginning of written records to approximately 500 AD Archaeological research provides more details and clues regularly. Statue of Fu Hao at Yinxu Deborah recorded in the Old Testament of the Bible Jael killing Sisera Didrachm of Amastris. Amastris was the first woman to issue coins in her own name. British Museum. Tomyris defeats Cyrus Be...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=8125947 ... Read more