2011م - 1444هـ
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
It is estimated that some six hundred women served during the American
Civil War. They had signed up disguised as men. Hollywood has missed a
significant chapter of cultural history here - or is this history ideologically too
difficult to deal with? Historians have often struggled to deal with women who do
not respect gender distinctions, and nowhere is that distinction more sharply
drawn than in the question of armed combat. (Even today, it can cause
controversy having a woman on a typically Swedish moose hunt.)
But from antiquity to modern times, there are many stories of female
warriors, of Amazons. The best known find their way into the history books as
warrior queens, rulers as well as leaders. They have been forced to act as any
Churchill, Stalin, or Roosevelt: Semiramis from Nineveh, who shaped the Assyrian
Empire, and Boudicca, who led one of the bloodiest English revolts against the
Roman forces of occupation, to cite just two. Boudicca is honoured with a statue
on the Thames at Westminster Bridge, right opposite Big Ben. Be sure to say hello
to her if you happen to pass by.
On the other hand, history is quite reticent about women who were
common soldiers, who bore arms, belonged to regiments, and played their part in
battle on the same terms as men. Hardly a war has been waged without women
soldiers in the ranks.
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