Proposal for personal project on historical figure "MATA HARI" citing intended sources and questions

The subject I have chosen for my history advise is on Mata Hari; a dancer sentenced to death by the French during WWI for espionage, who later became synonymous with the paradigms of the female spy.

Initially I had only wisplike ideas about what I was intending to do my project on. Previous to my look into on WWI I was not a state of ware of Mata Hari and as I learned more of her I became fascinated by the captivate surrounding this personality. She emerged as one of the few female personalities of WWI who although did not hold significance to the great war itself, left a lasting impression on society and became the historical backside to the stereotype of women in espionage; seductive, mysterious and in various examples, illustrated as inferior to men.

I began my preliminary research on this personality by searching various websites and online databases. It seemed that in the brief online biographies I instal of her, contemporary sources were content not to define definitely whether Mata Hari was real guilty of spying for the Germans. Rather, according to Encyclopedia Britannica Online it was not that she was unavoidably a spy, but the perception that her treasonous work go against France was enough to lead to her demise.

Contemporary popular historian Julie Wheelwright in her acclaimed biography The Fatal Lover- Mata Hari, first published 1992, emphasizes Mata Hari as a feminine heroine misunderstood in her conservative time who was vilified because of her proceeding of abandoning the stereotype of the domicile housewife to engage in her internal feminine ability to dominate over men through and through her sexuality. Wheelwright clearly cites primary evidence that Mata Hari was wrong exuberanty criminate and convicted not only because of previously mentioned high paranoia and suspicion of France during the war time, but also because of...

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