Women on the front line, from forgotten commanders to cross-dressing soldiers
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The Coed Place of Women on the Battlefield
In most cases, yes, you do get this deliberate forgetting. And it's the evidence of women's physical capacity to be on a battlefield full stop to get suppressed. Those women may not have been fighting, but they were experiencing all of the same level of physical hardship and danger as the men around them. Well, women still tied to the usual rules of society on the battlefield.
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