To write this book, we consulted hundreds of print and online sources. Three of the most important were Brig. Gen. Jeanne Holm’s history Women in the Military: An Unfinished Revolution (Novato: Presidio, 1987); Evelyn Monahan and Rosemary Neidel-Greenlee’s history A Few Good Women: America’s Military Women from World War I to the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan (New York: Anchor, 2010); and Judith Bellafaire’s Women in the United States Military: An Annotated Bibliography (Abingdon UK: Routledge, 2011). Below is a short list of other histories, biographies, and memoirs we found especially useful during our research.
Binker, Mary Jo. Her Story: An Oral History Handbook for Collecting Military Women’s Stories. Washington DC: Military Women’s Press, 2002.
Blair, Jane. Hesitation Kills: A Female Marine Officer’s Combat Experience in Iraq. Lanham MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2011.
Blanton, DeAnne, and Lauren Cook Wise. They Fought Like Demons: Women Soldiers in the American Civil War. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2002.
DePauw, Linda Grant. Battle Cries and Lullabies: Women in War from PreHistory to the Present. Norman: University of Oklahoma, 1998.
—. “Women in Combat: The Revolutionary War Experience.” Armed Forces and Society 7 (1981): 209–26. http://afs.sagepub.com.
Ebbert, Jean, and Marie-Beth Hall. The First, the Few, the Forgotten: Navy and Marine Corps Women in World War I. Annapolis MD: Naval Institute, 2002.
Frank, Lisa Tendrich, ed. An Encyclopedia of American Women at War from the Home Front to the Battlefields. 2 vols. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2013.
Goodman, Robin Truth. Gender for the Warfare State: Literature of Women in Combat. New York: Routledge, 2016.
Graf, Mercedes H. “Women Nurses in the Spanish-American War.” Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women in the Military 19, no. 1 (Spring 2001): 3–38.
Harris, Sharon M. Dr. Mary Walker: An American Radical, 1832–1919. New Brunswick NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2009.
Kraft, Heidi Squier. Rule Number Two: Lessons I Learned in a Combat Hospital. New York: Little, Brown, 2007.
Lemmon, Gayle Tzemach. Ashley’s War: The Untold Story of a Team of Women Soldiers on the Special Ops Battlefield. New York: Harper Collins, 2015.
Lowery, Donna. Women Vietnam Veterans: Our Untold Stories. N.p.: AuthorHouse, 2015.
Maloney, Linda, ed. Military Fly Moms: Sharing Memories, Building Legacies, Inspiring Hope. Dowell MD: Tannenbaum, 2012.
Mangerich, Agnes Jensen. Albanian Escape: The True Story of U.S. Army Nurses behind Enemy Lines. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1999.
McIntosh, Elizabeth P. Sisterhood of Spies: Women of the OSS. Annapolis MD: Naval Institute, 1998.
Miles, Rosalind, and Robin Cross. Hell Hath No Fury: True Stories of Women at War from Antiquity to Iraq. New York: Three Rivers, 2008.
North, Louise V., Janet M. Wedge, and Landa M. Freeman. In the Words of Women: The Revolutionary War and the Birth of the Nation, 1765–1799. Plymouth, UK: Lexington Books, 2011.
Ritchie, Elspeth Cameron, and Anne L. Naclerio. Women at War. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015.
Sarnecky, Mary T. A History of the U.S. Army Nurse Corps. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999.
Sherman, Janann. No Place for a Woman: A Life of Senator Margaret Chase Smith. New Brunswick NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2000.
Smith, Winnie. American Daughter Gone to War: On the Front Lines with an Army Nurse in Vietnam. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992.
Stremlow, Mary V. A History of the Women Marines, 1946–1977. Washington DC: History and Museums Division, Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps, 1986. http://www.marines.mil/Portals/59/Publications/A%20history%20of%20the%20women%20marines%201946–1977%20pcn%2019000309400_1.pdf.
Williams, Kayla. Love My Rifle More Than You: Young and Female in the U.S. Army. New York: W. W. Norton, 2006.
—. Plenty of Time When We Get Home: Love and Recovery in the Aftermath of War. New York: W. W. Norton, 2014.
Witt, Linda, Judith Bellafaire, Britta Granrud, and Mary Jo Binker. “A Defense Weapon Known to Be of Value”: Servicewomen of the Korean War Era. Hanover NH: University Press of New England, 2005.
Young, Alfred F. Masquerade: The Life and Times of Deborah Sampson, Continental Soldier. New York: Random House, 2004.