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When Janey Comes Marching Home

Portraits of Women Combat Veterans

by Laura Browder
Sascha Pflaeging
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While women are officially barred from combat in the American armed services, in the current war, where there are no front lines, the ban on combat is virtually meaningless. More than in any previous conflict in our history, American women are engaging with the enemy, suffering injuries, and even sacrificing their lives in the line of duty.
When Janey Comes Marching Home juxtaposes forty-eight photographs by Sascha Pflaeging with oral histories collected by Laura Browder to provide a dramatic portrait of women at war. Women from all five branches of the military share their stories here—stories that are by turns moving, comic, thought-provoking, and profound. Seeing their faces in stunning color photographic portraits and reading what they have to say about loss, comradeship, conflict, and hard choices will change the ways we think about women and war.
Serving in a combat zone is an all-encompassing experience that is transformative, life-defining, and difficult to leave behind. By coming face-to-face with women veterans, we who are outside that world can begin to get a sense of how the long wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have shaped their lives and how their stories may ripple out and influence the experiences of all American women.
The book accompanies a photography exhibit of the same name opening May 1, 2010, at the Women in Military Service to America Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery, and continuing to travel around the country through 2011.

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    May 1, 2010

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      • ISBN: 9780807898338
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    • English

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    • Library Journal

      May 1, 2010
      With the strains placed on an all-volunteer force during an unpopular war and the shifting nature of modern warfare, women are being allowed more active roles than ever in America's armed forces. The official ban on women holding combat positions has been essentially unenforceable in Iraq and Afghanistan, where over 100 service women have been killed. Browder (English, Virginia Commonwealth Univ.; "Her Best Shot: Women and Guns in America") and photographer Pflaeging here present the experiences of some of the service women returning from these combat zones by color portraits combined with their oral histories. Their project includes an exhibition of these portraits as large-scale prints, this accompanying book with 48 portraits, and a documentary film to come. Browder's introduction gives a historical and societal overview of women in combat, but the color portraits and oral histories take center stage. Initially, readers may be tempted to deify these women for their contributions to the continuing struggle for female equality, but their unflinching accounts unfold to a tangible and poignant humanity. VERDICT Recommended for adult readers, particularly those with an interest in women's studies or the history of Americans in combat.Tessa L.H. Minchew, Georgia Perimeter Coll. Lib., Clarkston

      Copyright 2010 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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