MINERVA

Announcing the MINERVA List
Discussion on women and the military and women in war. This list
is sponsored by The MINERVA Center, Inc., a non-profit
educational foundation devoted to promoting the study of women
and the military and women in war.

Since 1983, the Center has pursued its mission through print
publication.  We have two quarterly periodicals:_MINERVA:
Quarterly Report on Women and the Military_which carries major
articles by historians,sociologists, political scientists and
other scholars as well as contributions from independent
researchers, oral histories, bibliographies, and occassionally
short stories and poetry.  The second publication is_Minerva's
Bulletin Board_, an international news magazine on women and the
military which carries brief news items from around the world as
well as a column of Letters to MINERVA and a regular column
contributed by WANDAS.

The MINERVA Center also publishes books. In 1994 we published 
Lauren Cook Burgess, ed., _An Uncommon Soldier: The Civil War
Letters of Sarah Rosetta Wakeman,alias Private Lyons Wakeman,
153rd Regiment, New York State Volunteers_, which will have a
paperback edition released by Oxford University Press in March 1996 
In December, 1996 we released a special Fiftieth Anniversary paperback
edition of C. Kay Larson, _'Til I Come Marching Home: A Brief History of
American Women in World War II_ .


Linda Grant De Pauw, the President of The MINERVA Center, is also
Professor of History at The George Washington University, which
is the only institution offering graduate training in the women's
military history specialty.  This list was  given a jump
start in September 1995 by the students enrolled in her Reading Seminar
on Women and War.

The MINERVA list is open to anyone with a serious interest in its
subject matter and encourages a variety of contributions.  We
offer a forum for exchange between scholars and for the current
concerns of active duty women and women veterans (including
"civilian" veterans like members of the Red Cross and military
wives).  We are eager to receive personal memories,inquiries,
unsolicited book reviews, information on meetings, and
cross-postings from other parts of cyberspace.

MINERVA is a moderated list, that is, it is edited to filter out
extraneous messages (like requests to subscribe) or items that do
not belong on the list because they are not relevant to our
subject matter. We will also edit out "flames" or other material
that does not contribute to The MINERVA Center's mission to
provide "information and inspiration."

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Direct all comments or questions to
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Linda Grant De Pauw
President
The MINERVA Center, Inc.
20 Granada Road
Pasadena, MD 21122
(410) 437-5379
minervacen@aol.com

    MINERVA "information and inspiration"
         Women and War + Women and the Military
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