Warring over Valor: How Race and Gender Shaped American Military Heroism in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries by Sarah Makeschin, Ellen D. Wu, Simon Wendt, Sonja John, Amy Lucker, Simon Hall, Matthias Voigt, George Lewis, Carrie Andersen, Steve Estes

Warring over Valor: How Race and Gender Shaped American Military Heroism in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

Sarah Makeschin, Ellen D. Wu, Simon Wendt, Sonja John, Amy Lucker, Simon Hall, Matthias Voigt, George Lewis, Carrie Andersen, Steve Estes

220 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

informative reflective medium-paced

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By focusing on how the idea of heroism on the battlefield helped construct, perpetuate, and challenge racial and gender hierarchies in the United States between World War I and the present, Warring over Valor provides fresh perspectives on the his...

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