ABSTRACT
Women make their own history but they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves but under circumstances directly encountered, given and transmitted from the past. A slightly altered quotation from Marx (he refers to Men) which highlights the experience of an army of women between the two World Wars. I call them an Army because they entered as young recruits and were trained to accept their place in structured hierarchy. Despite strong internal resistances and reservations, they accepted the discipline, on the whole, without question.
