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Title When Janey comes marching home : portraits of women combat veterans / [compiled by] Laura Browder ; photographs by Sascha Pflaeging.

Imprint Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2010.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  956.704434 W574 2010    ---  Available
Description 157 p. : col. ill. ; 24 x 27 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Summary Forty-eight women who have served in combat zones in the Iraq and the Afghanistan wars discuss their experiences with loss, injuries, difficult choices, and sacrifice, in a text that includes photographic portraits of each woman.
Contents Why I joined -- Earlier wars -- Deployment -- Relationships with Iraqis and Afghans -- Contractors -- Spirituality -- The mission -- Motherhood --Coming home -- Changing relationships -- Women in the military.
Subject Women veterans -- United States -- Biography.
Women veterans -- United States -- Pictorial works.
United States -- Armed Forces -- Women -- Biography.
United States -- Armed Forces -- Women -- Pictorial works.
Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Women -- United States -- Biography.
Afghan War, 2001-2021 -- Women -- United States -- Biography.
Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Personal narratives, American.
Afghan War, 2001-2021 -- Personal narratives, American.
Women and war -- United States.
Added Author Browder, Laura, 1963-
Pflaeging, Sascha.
ISBN 9780807833803 (cloth : alk. paper)
0807833800 (cloth : alk. paper)
Standard No. AU@ 000044724509
CDX 10908310

 
    
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