1 In the Beginning: Women Warriors of Myth and Early History 1 -- Amazons -- Arab Women Warriors -- Boudicca -- Brunhilde and Fredegund -- Cartimandua -- Cleopatra VII -- Tomoe Gozen -- Women Warriors in Ancient Greece and Rome -- Zenobia -- 2 Captains and the Queens: Women Leaders and Commanders, Directing War and Conflict 28 -- Catherine II -- Elizabeth I -- Ethelfleda -- Gandhi, Indira -- Isabella of France -- Isabella I of Spain -- Matilda -- Meir, Golda -- Rice, Condoleezza -- Sforza, Caterina -- Tamara -- Thatcher, Margaret -- Tz'u-hsi -- 3 Runaways and Roaring Girls: Mavericks, Misfits, Malcontents, and Wild Ones: Women Seizing the Chance of War to Live and Fight as Men 65 -- Barry, James -- Dahomey, Warrior Women of -- Durova, Nadezhda -- Joan of Arc -- Michel, Louise -- Sampson, Deborah -- Sandes, Flora -- Velazquez, Loreta Janeta -- 4 Rebels and Revolutionaries: Women Taking Up Arms for a Cause 85 -- Bochkareva, Mariya -- Eritrea, Women Combatants -- Figner, Vera -- FLN Bombers -- Lakshmi Bai, Rani of Jhansi -- Long March -- Molly Pitcher -- Partisans -- Santamaria, Haydee -- Tamil Tigers -- Tubman, Harriet "Araminta" -- Vietnam Women Fighters -- 5 Creature Comforts: Courtesans, Consorts, and Camp Followers: Women Drawn into War to Minister to Men 123 -- Camp Followers -- Comfort Women -- Conquistadoras -- Leaguer Ladies -- Lynch, Elisa -- Mata Hari -- Royal Navy -- Soldaderas -- Tenepal, Malinalli -- Travers, Susan -- Vivandieres -- 6 Into Uniform: Women Mobilized to Support the War Effort 148 -- Air Transport Auxiliary -- Auxiliary Territorial Service -- Civil Defense -- Conscription -- Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services -- First Aid Nursing Yeomanry -- Helferinnen -- Israeli Defense Forces -- Lotta Svard -- NATO Armed Forces -- Red Army Women Soldiers -- Rosie the Riveter -- Soviet Women in War Industries -- United States Armed Forces -- US Air Force -- US Army -- US Marine Corps -- US Navy -- Voluntary Aid Detachment -- Women's Army Auxiliary Corps -- Women's Auxiliary Air Force -- Women's Auxiliary Army Corps -- Women's Royal Naval Service -- 7 At the Sharp End: Modern Soldiers, Sailors, and Airwomen 216 -- Cochran, Jacqueline -- Duckworth, Tammy -- Hester, Leigh Ann -- Holm, Jeanne -- Hopper, "Amazing" Grace -- Litvak, Lily -- Lynch, Jessica -- McGrath, Kathleen -- McSally, Martha -- Mixed Antiaircraft Batteries -- Night Witches -- Raskova, Marina -- Reitsch, Hanna -- Rossi, Marie T. -- Warsaw Ghetto Uprising -- 8 Healing Hands: Doctors, Nurses, Medics, and Health Workers 243 -- Ang, Swee Chai -- Army Nurse Corps -- Barton, Clara -- Bickerdyke, Mary Ann -- Bullwinkel, Vivian -- Chisholm, Mairi, and Elsie Knocker -- Dix, Dorothea -- Etheridge, Anna -- Inglis, Elsie -- Keil, Lillian Kinkela -- Nightingale, Florence -- Seacole, Mary "Mother" -- US Military Nurses and Doctors -- Walker, Mary Edwards -- 9 Recording Angels: Singers, Entertainers, Artists, Propagandists, and Chroniclers of War, the Good and the Bad 280 -- Al Haideri, Sahar Hussein -- Amanpour, Christiane -- Bourke-White, Margaret -- Deuell, Peggy Hull -- Frank, Anne -- Gellhorn, Martha -- Gillars, Mildred Elizabeth -- Kirkpatrick, Helen -- K'tut Tantri -- Lynn, Vera -- Politkovskaya, Anna -- Toguri, Ikuko -- 10 Valkyries, Furies, and Fiends: Ruthless Opportunists, Sadists, and Psychopaths Unleashed and Empowered by War 309 -- Ammash, Dr. Huda Salih Mahdi -- Braunsteiner, Hermine -- England, Lynndie -- Grese, Irma -- Khaled, Leila -- Lakwena, Alice -- Mbandi, Jinga -- Mukakibibi, Sister Theophister -- Plavsic, Biljana -- Suicide Bombers -- Tribal Revenge -- 11 Armies of the Shadows: Spies, Agents, and Underground Workers 333 -- American Civil War -- Atkins, Vera -- Bentov, Cheryl -- Brousse, Amy Elizabeth -- Cohen, Lona -- de Jongh, Andree -- Hall, Virginia -- Khan, Noor Inayat -- Manningham-Buller, Eliza -- Office of Strategic Services -- Rimington, Stella -- Sansom, Odette -- Sendlerowa, Irena -- Skarbek, Krystyna -- Special Operations Executive -- Szabo, Violette -- Vertefeuille, Jeanne -- Werner, Ruth -- Witherington, Pearl.
