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List of women military historians

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This is a list of women military historians. Traditionally an overwhelmingly male-dominated discipline,[1] women began entering the field with the turn towards the 'new military history' of the 1960s. Pioneering women military historians included Joanna Bourke and Amanda Foreman, who contributed to re-orientating military history towards a "multidisciplinary approach that embeds war in its political, social, cultural and personal contexts".[2] However, women remain under-represented in academic military history.[3]

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  1. ^ Lynn, John A. (1997). "The embattled future of academic military history". The Journal of Military History. 61 (4): 777–789. doi:10.2307/2954086. JSTOR 2954086. ProQuest 195642876. Moreover, military history is a remarkably male field, both in that we study institutions that have been overwhelmingly male and in that women are underrepresented among military historians as a group. The uncharitable might claim that as opposed to women's history, military history is men's history par excellence.
  2. ^ Lovell, Julia (2011-09-30). "Military history: not just for men". The Guardian. Retrieved 2017-10-12.
  3. ^ "5x15 talks: Women in military history". National Army Museum. Retrieved 2017-10-12.
  4. ^ "Reina Pennington - C-SPAN.org". www.c-span.org.
  5. ^ "A Woman of Substance". 20 December 2013.