Jamaican Women and the World Wars On the Front Lines of Change /

• Main Author: Bean, Dalea (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Military history.; Women.; Social history.; Imperialism.; Gender identity.; History of Military.; Women's Studies.; Social History.; Imperialism and Colonialism.; Gender and Sexuality.

This book highlights the important, yet often forgotten, roles that Jamaican women played in the World Wars. Predicated on the notion that warfare has historically been an agent of change, Dalea Bean contends that traces of this truism were in Jamaica and illustrates that women have historically bee...