I seek contributors and contributing editors for MILITARY WOMEN WORLDWIDE:
A BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY to be published by Greenwood Press. The audience
will be university and public libraries, students from the secondary to the
graduate level, and book clubs. Coverage will include women from antiquity
to the present, throughout the world. Since the book encompasses many
nations and historical periods, the term "military" is necessarily used in
the broadest sense to include all sorts of armed service: regular army and
militia; ground forces, air forces, and navy; on a formal or auxiliary
basis.
Priorities will be as follows: 1) women who fought or fulfilled a direct
combat role. 2) women who served in designated military positions and/or
who held military rank. 3) women who did not fight or have formal rank, but
otherwise fulfilled military duties (WASPs etc.) 4) space permitting, other
women connected with military service.
Biographical essays will run 300-1500 words, and will include group entries
as well as individual name entries. Entries will include brief biographical
data and coverage of the subject's background, education, and formative
experiences. We are NOT looking for full biographies; we are focusing
*strictly* on the subjects' MILITARY roles. The main emphasis should be on
the individual's particular contribution or significance as a military
figure. Historical context should be minimal, but sufficient to understand
the subject's achievements. Short entries on major organizations important
to military women (such as the WASPS, Osoaviakhim, the Women's Battalions
of Death, etc.) will be included separately to avoid repetition in
individual subject entries. Anecdotes and representative events from the
individual's life should be included to make the entry as lively and
interesting as possible, while retaining accuracy and sound scholarship.
Contributors should be well-versed in scholarly research methods. Sorting
out fact from fiction will be very important in this project; contributors
must be prepared to make efforts to track down primary sources where
available, and to evaluate credibility of all sources.
I am the editor of this volume and Robin Higham is the advisory editor. I
would like to find several contributing editors willing to take
responsibility for entries connected with a geographical area or time
period; those editors will write some entries themselves and assist in
finding contributors for the remaining entries. Individual contributors are
also welcome. There is no financial honorarium, unfortunately. All
contributors receive a byline; contributing editors and others who write
multiple entries will receive a copy of the published book.
A partial list of women in the history of England and Scotland who have
played military roles (and who have not yet been assigned to contributors)
includes:
Aethelburg Aethelflaed of Mercia
Christian, Lady Bruce Emma, Countess of Norfolk
Nicolaa de la Haye Agnes Hotot
Isabelle of England Margaret Keith
Margaret of Anjou Mary of Guelders
Matilda Augustus Matilda of Boulogne
Philippa of Hainault Lady Agnes Randolph (Dunbar)
Lady Strathbogie
Mary Ambree Lilliard of Ancrum
Blanche, Lady Arundel Kit Cavanagh
Ann Cunningham Lettice Digby
Anne Dymoke Lady Brilliana Harley
Anne Keith Charlotte Stanley, Countess of Derby
Lady Mary Bankes Flora Sandes
WAAC Women's Legion
Women's Voluntary Reserve WRAF
WRNS ATS
Violet Douglas-Tennant WAAF
Women's Land Army
If you are interested in participating in the project and would like
detailed information, please send cv/resume and area(s) of interest to:
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Reina Pennington e-mail: RPennington@sunbelt.net
Dept. of History voice: 803-777-5195
Univ. of South Carolina fax: 803-777-4494
Columbia, SC 29208 USA *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+