Download or read book Amazons and Military Maids written by Julie Wheelwright and published by London : Pandora. This book was released on 1989 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study based on memoirs, letters, diaries and historical archives, tracing the careers of women from the 1700s who have lived and worked as men. The tensions that these women came to accept as the price of their tentative freedom aim to provide clues to the understanding of sexual roles.