The American Girl Goes to WarDuring the 1910s, films about war often featured a female protagonist. The films portrayed women as spies, cross dressing soldiers, and athletic defenders of their homesroles typically reserved for men and that contradicted gendered expectations of home front women waiting for their husbands, sons, and brothers to return from battle. The representation of American martial spiritparticularly in the form of heroineshas a rich history in film in the