ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the role of women in armed combat, a specific case that illustrates both the flexibility and resilience of gender roles in an area where men and women worked together. Chemist France Bloch-Serazin provided raw materials from her laboratory and manufactured explosives for partisan fighters. Colonel Henri Rol-Tanguy became commander-in-chief of die unified Forces frangaises de I'interieur in the Ile-de-France. Roderick Kedward, "The Maquis and the Culture of the Outlaw" in Vichy Frarue and the Resistance: Culture and Ideology, ed. R. Kedward and Roger Austin. Karl Radekconcurs with Bebel's characterization of Zetkin, which he cites in her honor on the occasion of her sixty-fifth birthday. Although these are examples of powerful women figures in left-wing parties, politics was probably less a factor in their being dubbed "honorary men" than their being women in male gender territory. The close collaboration of women at the very core of combat groups was not uncommon.
