"In April 1981, seventeen women convened in Amsterdam to describe and analyse women in militaries, with a special focus on women recruited into the militaries allied in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (Nato). The meeting was sponsored by the Feminism/Socialism Project of the Transnational Institute. Women activists and researchers from Norway, Canada, Britain, West Germany, the United States and the Netherlands participated. In addition though Israel is not a member of Nato, an Israeli participant was included because so many of the presumptions about how and why women are used within a government's regular armed forces derive from the alleged experience of the Israeli military."

Bibliography: p. 91-94.