Women In Defense Work During World War Ii
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In Defense of a Nation
Author | : Jeanne Holm |
Publisher | : Vandamere Press |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Surveys the accomplishments of servicewomen during World War II, including their roles in nursing, reserves, and air force services, and tells how they faced up to deployment around the world, bombing attacks, and imprisonment.
American Working Women in World War II
Author | : Lynn Dumenil |
Publisher | : Macmillan Higher Education |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2019-10-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1319159575 |
American Working Women in World War II introduces students to American women’s experiences in defense work during World War II, focusing on the challenges they faced in male-dominated factories and the military, as well as their struggle to juggle work with expectations at home. An introductory essay and a rich array of primary sources—including firsthand accounts of women from diverse backgrounds, cartoons, photographs, and magazine articles—arranged in thematic chapters provides a lens through which to examine the history of women, gender, sexuality, labor, race, and ethnicity during this period, as well as the ways in which women’s participation in the war effort may have contributed toward the civil rights movement of the 1950s and the feminist movement of the 1960s. Document headnotes, a chronology, questions for consideration, and a selected bibliography further enrich this work. Available in print and e-book formats.
The Second Line of Defense
Author | : Lynn Dumenil |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 357 |
Release | : 2017-02-07 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1469631229 |
In tracing the rise of the modern idea of the American "new woman," Lynn Dumenil examines World War I's surprising impact on women and, in turn, women's impact on the war. Telling the stories of a diverse group of women, including African Americans, dissidents, pacifists, reformers, and industrial workers, Dumenil analyzes both the roadblocks and opportunities they faced. She richly explores the ways in which women helped the United States mobilize for the largest military endeavor in the nation's history. Dumenil shows how women activists staked their claim to loyal citizenship by framing their war work as homefront volunteers, overseas nurses, factory laborers, and support personnel as "the second line of defense." But in assessing the impact of these contributions on traditional gender roles, Dumenil finds that portrayals of these new modern women did not always match with real and enduring change. Extensively researched and drawing upon popular culture sources as well as archival material, The Second Line of Defense offers a comprehensive study of American women and war and frames them in the broader context of the social, cultural, and political history of the era.
A History of Women in Defense Work During World War II
Author | : Rita F. Malkin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : World War, 1939-1945 |
ISBN | : |
American Women During World War II
Author | : Doris Weatherford |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 552 |
Release | : 2009-10-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1135201900 |
American Women during World War II documents the lives and stories of women who contributed directly to the war effort via official and semi-official military organizations, as well as the millions of women who worked in civilian defense industries, ranging from aircraft maintenance to munitions manufacturing and much more. It also illuminates how the war changed the lives of women in more traditional home front roles. All women had to cope with rationing of basic household goods, and most women volunteered in war-related programs. Other entries discuss institutional change, as the war affected every aspect of life, including as schools, hospitals, and even religion. American Women during World War II provides a handy one-volume collection of information and images suitable for any public or professional library.
American Women During World War II
Author | : Doris Weatherford |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 537 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780415994750 |
"American Women during World War II documents the lives and stories of women who contributed directly to the war effort via official and semi-official military organizations, as well as the millions of women who worked in civilian defense industries, ranging from aircraft maintenance to munitions manufacturing and much more. It also illuminates how the war changed the lives of women in more traditional home front roles. All women had to cope with rationing of basic household goods, and most women volunteered in war-related programs. Other entries discuss institutional change, as the war affected every aspect of life, including as schools, hospitals, and even religion." "American Women during World War II provides a handy one-volume collection of information and images suitable for any public or professional library."--BOOK JACKET.
American Women in a World at War
Author | : Judy Barrett Litoff |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780842025713 |
This title brings together twenty-five writings by women who share their rich and varied World War II experiences, from serving in the military to working on the home front to preparing for the postwar world. By providing evidence of their active and resourceful roles in the war effort as workers, wives, and mothers, these women offer eloquent testimony that World War II was indeed everybody's war. Litoff and Smith combine pieces by well-known writers, such as Margaret Culkin Banning and Nancy Wilson Ross, with important-but largely forgotten-personal accounts by ordinary women living in extraordinary times. This volume is divided into the six sections listed below: Preparing for War In the Military At 'Far-Flung' Fronts On the Home Front War Jobs Preparing for the Postwar World
Beyond Rosie
Author | : Julia Brock |
Publisher | : University of Arkansas Press |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2015-03-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1557286701 |
Collection of primary source documents, which include photographs, official reports, editorials, executive orders, radio broadcast scripts, letters and oral histories, detailing the experiences and contributions of American women during World War II. The documentary collection is a companion volume to a 2012 traveling exhibition from the Museum of History and Holocaust Education. Chapter 1 documents the mobilization of women into industrial factories and agricultural sectors. Chapter 2 deals with women who found employment in white-collar professions, such as law, journalism, clerical work and medicine. Chapter 3 traces women's service in military auxiliary units. Chapter 4 focuses on women's domestic labor on the home front. Chapter 5 documents the secret war waged by the government including its use of women as spies and saboteurs.