Cover detail of the book Guerrillas and Combative Mothers. UKZN Press February 20, 2024 Women in South Africa’s armed struggle: new book records history at first hand Thoko Sipungu, Rhodes University The interviews in this book offer firsthand insights into women’s participation in the armed struggle against apartheid.
EPA-EFE/Ukrainian presidential press service February 2, 2023 Ukraine recap: Kyiv keeps its friends close, but will they send the latest warplanes? Jonathan Este, The Conversation A selection of our coverage of the conflict from the past week.
A copy of an engraving of Count Casimir Pulaski published in 1871. Wikimedia Commons April 9, 2019 Adventurous identities: intersex soldiers and cross-dressing women at war Olivia Murphy, University of Sydney New evidence suggests the 18th-century cavalry officer Casimir Pulaski was a woman or intersex. While we know little of intersex soldiers, there is a fascinating history of women dressing as men to fight.