The World Turned Upside Down: Female Soldiers in the French Armies of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
Title | The World Turned Upside Down: Female Soldiers in the French Armies of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars |
Publication Type | Book Chapter |
Year of Publication | 2009 |
Authors | Hopkin, David |
Editor | Forrest, Alan, Karen Hagemann, and Jane Rendall |
Book Title | Soldiers, Citizens and Civilians: Experiences and Perceptions of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, 1790-1820 |
Pagination | 77-98 |
Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
City | Basingstoke, UK |
Abstract | This book chapter in the edited volume "Soldiers, Citizens and Civilians: Experiences and Perceptions of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, 1790-1820" with essays that discuss the formative experience of the French Reolutionary and Napoleoinc War (1792-1815) for men and women, as soldiers, citizens and civilians, focuses on the the small group of female soldiers, especially in the French Army. Around 80 were discovered by historians. It explores the social background of these cross-dressing women, their motives to join the military dressed as a men, their perception by contemporaries and their national recollection. Most of them were only discovered because of injuries or their death. When they were discovered otherwise, only a very small number was allowed to serve officially as women in the French military. |
URL | https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/9780230583290_5 |
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