Should women be confined to a few footnotes in war history?

'Adding women to the history of war merely adds a few minor footnotes to the main story of military endeavour; it does not tranform our fundamental understandings of war.' Disucss with reference to New Zealander's participation in the wars of the twentieth century. Women's war history can not simply be dismissed with a few minor footnotes attached to the main story of military endeavour, as it fails to address a large proportion of wartime …showed first 75 words of 3428 total…

…showed last 75 words of 3428 total…and Bill Willmot, eds, Culture and Identity in New Zealand, Wellington, 1989. Ruddick, Sara, 'Notes Towards a Feminist Peace Politics', in Miriam Cooke and Angela Woolacott, eds, Gendering War Talk, Princeton, 1993. Scott, Joan, 'Rewriting History' in Patrice and Margaret Higonnet, eds, Behind the Lines: Gender and the Two World Wars, New Haven, 1997. 'The Nurses' War Fund', Kai Tiaki New Zealand Nursing Journal, April 1915, extracts, p.45. Tolerton, Jane, Ettie, Auckland, 1992. Written by Amanda Turner University of Auckland, 2004.