Female Intelligence: Women and Espionage in the First World War

Female Intelligence: IVomen and Espionage in the First World War. By Tammy M. Proctor. New York: New York University Press, 2003. ISBN O8147-6693-5. Photographs. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Pp. xvi, 204. #26.95.

In Female Intelligence, Tammy Proctor examines the role and perception of women involved in World War I espionage and intelligence, emphasizing those who served the British. She crosses a feminist study of women's wartime work, on the lines of Angela Woollaeott, with an investigation of spying, in the tradition of John Keegan's recent hook, Wartime Intelligence. She not only looks at a topic that is frequently skimmed over by both fields, women's contributions to wartime clandestine work, but she also addresses questions that arise out of a feminist studies background.

Proctor argues that women engaged in crucial intelligence work in Britain and espionage on the continent. This...