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"In this compelling new study, Louise Edwards explores the lives of some of China's most famous women warriors and wartime spies through history. Focusing on key figures including Hua Mulan, Zheng Pingru and Liu Hulan, this book examines the ways in which these extraordinary women have been commemorated through a range of cultural mediums including film, theatre, museums and textbooks. Whether these women are perceived as heroes or anti-heroes, Edwards shows that both the popular and official presentations of them and of their accomplishments have evolved in line with China's shifting political values and military aspirations over the past 100 years. In lively and accessible style, with illustrations throughout, this book sheds new light on the relationship between gender and militarisation and the ways that women have been exploited to glamorise war both historically and in China today"--

Women soldiers --- Women spies --- Women soldiers in mass media --- Popular culture --- Sex role --- Militarism --- Political culture --- History --- China --- History, Military.

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A comprehensive analysis of the changing representations of military women in American and British movies and TV programs from the Second World War to the present.

Women soldiers in mass media --- Women and the military --- Women in motion pictures --- War films --- Music, Dance, Drama & Film --- Film --- History and criticism --- Armed Forces and women --- Military, The, and women --- Women and the Armed Forces --- Motion pictures --- Anti-war films --- Armed Forces --- Women and war --- Mass media --- Women soldiers in motion pictures. --- Women soldiers on television. --- Television --- Media & Communications --- Femininity --- Masculinity --- Military --- Nursing --- Rape --- United States --- Women in the military --- World War II