Nicole’s Reviews > Forgotten Warriors: The Long History of Women in Combat > Status Update

Not just because promotional pathways are barred but because some lesser jobs automatically get seen as jobs for women.

Suppressing previous history of women in combat made it easier to stifle future women in combat.

Placing women into all-male environment threatens organisational cohesion

The permeability of the home front and depictions of women defending their children are more readily accepted.

Women rebel fighters have been most common in Latin America- one study indicated that no Latin American rebel movements excluded women completely.

Compare soviet militia vs vietnamese militia ?

Or
Check if the rebellions Soviets/communism caused world wide had women rebels and how this compares to Soviet female combatants.

Nguyen Thi Dinh and other famous women Vietnamese generals.

As a result, the sort of war that was entirely normal in the vast majority of the world could still be treated as an aberration by the west, a disruption from the ordinary way of things. And in turn this meant that the presence of women in many of these wars could be easily dismissed as the sort of aberration behaviour that occurs in aberrant wars.

Women fought in the Vietnam War and were not counted as combatants by the Americans, thus undermining the number of opponents they had to face.

Also over-emphasising the Zoia example over-represents the horrors of what happens to women who step out of the private sphere.