Women Warriors: A True Woman Warrior Lifts Up Other Women
In one of the best-known examples, Irish-born Kit Cavanagh (1667– 1739), also known as Christian Davies, Christopher Welsh, and "Mother Ross" at various points in her career, claimed she enlisted to search for her first husband after he ...
Susan B. Edgington and Sarah Lambert (New York: Columbia University Press, 2002),46. Note the cautious"it is said." Zonaras knows he is looking at the distant past through a telescope. We have a similar account from twelfth-century ...
Global in its focus and pan-historical in its scope, Women Warriors includes the stories of scores of women leaders, soldiers, pirates, outlaws, terrorists, cavalry leaders, and more. In first-century Britain,...
Although war has long been considered the domain of men, women have courageously fought for their families, their nations, and their causes_whether on the battlefield or off.
These are the stories of women who fought because they wanted to, because they had to, or because they could.
Explores the compelling lives of the extraordinary women who rebelled against constraints placed upon their sex to become warriors.
From the story of Britain's proud queen Boadicea to that of the Sioux warrior Winyan Ohitika, Marianna Mayer re-creates twelve thrilling tales of war and bravery, bitterness and triumph.