This companion volume to Reel Men at War takes a look at how women have been portrayed in war films, from silents of the 1920s to films of the twenty-first century. The authors explore the full range of women on the home front, covering nurses and doctors on the war front and women in combat. Films examined include Wings, A Farewell to Arms, Since You Went Away, So Proudly We Hail, Mrs. Miniver, A Guy Named Joe, The Best Years of Our Lives, From Here to Eternity, M*A*S*H, Coming Home, Aliens, G. I. Jane, Courage under Fire, Starship Troopers, Inglorious Basterds, and Zero Dark Thirty. This volume also includes an extensive filmography with brief assessments of how women are portrayed in each of these films.

By Ralph Donald and Karen MacDonald

Chapter 1: An Introduction
Chapter 2: Mothers, Daughters, Sisters and Girlfriends: The Madonnas
Chapter 3: Women as Chattel
Chapter 4: Women as Prostitutes, "Loose Women," Camp Followers and the Unfaithful
Chapter 5: The Hawksian Woman
Chapter 6: G.I. Jane and Female Resistance Fighters
Chapter 7: The Female Spy, or "Mata Hari"
Chapter 8: Female Nurses and Doctors
Chapter 9: A Few Concluding Thoughts
Annotated Filmography
Bibliography
Index
About the Authors