Elite women warriors and dog soldiers: Gender adaptations in modern war films

Gender and Warfare in the Twentieth Century: Textual Representations

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 195-215

  Walsh, Jeffrey ^a  

^a MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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