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　　More American women have fought and died in Iraq than in any

war since World War Two, yet as soldiers they are still painfully

alone. In Iraq, only one in ten troops is a woman, and she often

serves in a unit with few other women or none at all. This

isolation, along with the military's deep-seated hostility toward

women, causes problems that many female soldiers find as hard to

cope with as war itself: degradation, sexual persecution by their

comrades, and loneliness, instead of the camaraderie that every

soldier depends on for comfort and survival. As one female soldier

said, "I ended up waging my own war against an enemy dressed in the

same uniform as mine."

In The Lonely Soldier, Benedict tells the stories of five women

who fought in Iraq between 2003 and 2006. She follows them from

their childhoods to their enlistments, then takes them through

their training, to war and home again, all the while setting the

war's events in context.

We meet Jen, white and from a working-class town in the

heartland, who still shakes from her wartime traumas; Abbie, who

rebelled against a household of liberal Democrats by enlisting in

the National Guard; Mickiela, a Mexican American who grew up with a

family entangled in L.A. gangs; Terris, an African American mother

from D.C. whose childhood was torn by violence; and Eli

PaintedCrow, who joined the military to follow Native American

tradition and to escape a life of Faulknerian hardship. Between

these stories, Benedict weaves those of the forty other Iraq War

veterans she interviewed, illuminating the complex issues of war

and misogyny, class, race, homophobia, and post-traumatic stress

disorder. Each of these stories is unique, yet collectively they

add up to a heartbreaking picture of the sacrifices women soldiers

are making for this country.

Benedict ends by showing how these women came to face the truth

of war and by offering suggestions for how the military can improve

conditions for female soldiers-including distributing women more

evenly throughout units and rejecting male recruits with records of

violence against women. Humanizing, urgent, and powerful, The

Lonely Soldier is a clarion call for change.

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　　Helen Benedict, a professor of journalism at

Columbia University, has written frequently on women, race, and

justice. Her books include Virgin or Vamp: How the Press

Covers Sex Crimes and the novels The Opposite of

Love, The Sailor's Wife, Bad Angel, and A World Like

This. Her work on soldiers won the James Aronson Award for

Social Justice Journalism.

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More American women have fought and died in Iraq than in any war since World War Two, yet as soldiers they are still painfully alone. In Iraq, only one in ten troops is a woman, and she often serves in a unit with few other women or none at all. This isolation, along with the military's deep-seated hostility toward women, causes problems that many female soldiers find as hard to cope with as war itself: degradation, sexual persecution by their comrades, and loneliness, instead of the camaraderie that every soldier depends on for comfort and survival. As one female soldier said, "I ended up waging my own war against an enemy dressed in the same uniform as mine."

In The Lonely Soldier , Benedict tells the stories of five women who fought in Iraq between 2003 and 2006. She follows them from their childhoods to their enlistments, then takes them through their training, to war and home again, all the while setting the war's events in context.

We meet Jen, white and from a working-class town in the heartland, who still shakes from her wartime traumas; Abbie, who rebelled against a household of liberal Democrats by enlisting in the National Guard; Mickiela, a Mexican American who grew up with a family entangled in L.A. gangs; Terris, an African American mother from D.C. whose childhood was torn by violence; and Eli PaintedCrow, who joined the military to follow Native American tradition and to escape a life of Faulknerian hardship. Between these stories, Benedict weaves those of the forty other Iraq War veterans she interviewed, illuminating the complex issues of war and misogyny, class, race, homophobia, and post-traumatic stress disorder. Each of these stories is unique, yet collectively they add up to a heartbreaking picture of the sacrifices women soldiers are making for this country.

Benedict ends by showing how these women came to face the truth of war and by offering suggestions for how the military can improve conditions for female soldiers-including distributing women more evenly throughout units and rejecting male recruits with records of violence against women. Humanizing, urgent, and powerful, The Lonely Soldier is a clarion call for change.