Women warriors and national heroes  : global histories 
/ edited by Boyd Cothran, Joan Judge, and Adrian Shubert 
 - 1 online resource (260 pages) :  illustrations (some color) 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Part 1. Process India’s rebel queen : Rani Lakshmi Bai and the 1857 uprising Historians and Nehanda of Zimbabwe in history and memory Women warriors or mothers of the fatherland: hero cults and gender in Basque nationalism Part 2. Violence Murderous daughters as “exemplary women” : filial piety, revenge, and heroism in early modern and modern Japan Women warriors and the mobilization of colonial memory in the nineteenth-century United States From the nation to emancipation : Greek women warriors from the Revolution (1820s) to the Civil War (1940s) Part 3. Gender fluidity Madeleine de Verchères (1678–1747) : woman warrior of French Jeanne d’Arc, Arab hero : warrior women, gender confusion, and feminine political authority in the Arab-Ottoman Gender and transgender in the Mexican revolution : the shifting memory of Amelio Robles Part 4. Survivors “Amazons” in the pantheon? Women warriors, nationalism, and hero cults in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Chile and Peru Commemorating China’s wartime spies : red agents Guan Lu and Jiang Zhuyun, and the problem of female fidelity Vietnam’s martial women : the costs of transgressing boundaries 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781350121140 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Women soldiers--History<br/>Women heroes<br/>Women and war<br/>Women and the military
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books