"Keep the women out of the camp!": women and military institutions in the classical world / Jorit Wintjes -- Camp followers, sutlers, and soldiers' wives: women in early modern armies (c. 1450-c. 1650) / Mary Elizabeth Ailes -- Essential women, necessary wives, and exemplary soldiers: the military reality and cultural representation of women's military participation (1600-1815) / John A. Lynn II -- Reformers, nurses, and ladies in uniform: the changing status of military women (c. 1815-c. 1914) / Barton C. Hacker -- Volunteers, auxiliaries, and women's mobilization: the first world war and beyond (1914-1939) / Kimberly Jensen -- Women join the armed forces: the transformation of women's military work in World War II and after (1939-1947) / Margaret Vining -- Almost integrated? American servicewomen and their international sisters since World War II / D'Ann Campbell -- Revolutionaries, regulars, and rebels: women in non-western armies since World War II / Barton C. Hacker -- Women and war in early modern Russia (seventeenth to eighteenth centuries) / Carol B. Stevens -- Sisters in arms: Quebec convents at the crossroads of empire / Jan Noel -- U.S. Military wives in the Philippines, from the Philippine War to World War II / Donna Alvah -- "The spirit of woman-power": representation of women in World War I posters / Elizabeth Prelinger with Barton C. Hacker -- "German women help to win!" Women and the German military in the age of world wars / Karen Hagemann -- "Not even for three lines in history": Jewish women underground members and partisans during the Holocaust / Yehudit Kol-Inbar -- Sniper girls and fearless heroines: wartime representations of foreign women in English-Canadian press, 1941-1943 / Dorotea Gucciardo and Megan Howatt -- Enlisted women in the U.S. Army 1948-2008: a view from the market place / Judith Hicks Stiehm