Soldier Girls : The Battles of Three Women at Home and at War (Paperback)

from DeltaQueen50

Soldier Girls by Helen Thorpe explores women in the military through three women's stories. These women signed up for the Indiana National Guard but eventually find themselves serving in combat zones in Afghanistan and Iraq. These three women all had different reasons why they join the National G...

from wagner.sarah35

The stories of three women are explored in detail in this book, which tackles the weighty subjects of the War on Terror, women serving in the military, and gender roles. The gulf between the experience of military personnel in Afghanistan and Iraq and the public perception of the wars was strikin...

from susanbeamon

This book was a book club read, otherwise I might not have picked it up. I am a woman veteran; I enlisted in the Army in 1969. Things have changed in the military since then. These women are National Guard enlistees, and until their Guard Unit was called up, they were not in the military in the s...

from susanbeamon

This book was a book club read, otherwise I might not have picked it up. I am a woman veteran; I enlisted in the Army in 1969. Things have changed in the military since then. These women are National Guard enlistees, and until their Guard Unit was called up, they were not in the military in the s...

from ozzer

Helen Thorpe examines issues related to women in the National Guard during the Afghanistan and Iraq wars in her wonderful book, Soldier Girls. She follows three women who share many experiences with their male counterparts including multiple deployments, disillusionment with the military, substan...