
The Book Club: Tessa Dunlop
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Women in the Army - Are They Morally Corrupted?
There was a worry that if you had women involved in male combat units, hanky pank at the very least, would take place. And were these fears borne out? I think that, funly enough, was one of the main fears, the reticence behind women signing up. One of the main reasons was this hardening of our future wives and mothers. That wasn't just about sort of uncomfortable living in barracks, et cetera, but actually their exposure to the opposite sex. There was this inquiry, a markam inquiry, and the whole resoise in 19 forty two,. it was about looking into the conditions of the female services. It was pretty much ed
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