Book Description
Dramatic stories of women discovering their own potential in a time of national need, surprising themselves and others--and setting the roots of second wave feminism.
Author : Virginia Wright-Peterson
Publisher :
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 21,62 MB
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 9781681341514
Dramatic stories of women discovering their own potential in a time of national need, surprising themselves and others--and setting the roots of second wave feminism.
Author : Paula Nassen Poulos
Publisher :
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 10,42 MB
Release : 1997-07-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780788145148
Contents: setting the stage (women in the Air Force); making history: women, the military, and society (the Women's Corps; Waves, Spars, Women Marines, Army and Navy Nurses, and Wasps); contributing to the war effort (the Wac as cryptographer; women pilots of WW II); confronting the realities of service life; the African-American Wacs); documenting women's service: memoirs, museums, historical collections; documenting women's service: National Archives and Records Admin. (still pictures relating to women; government films); leading the way (women as veterans; African-American and Japanese-American women). B&W illustrations.
Author : Mark J. Crowley
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 14,13 MB
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 1783275871
Using a very wide range of detailed sources, the book surveys the many different experiences of women during the Second World War.
Author : S. Block
Publisher : Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 33,8 MB
Release : 2019-10-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1785764306
The heartwarming follow on to Keep the Home Fires Burning, from the creator of ITV smash-hit Home Fires - perfect for fans of Rosie Clarke and Annie Groves. In the depths of war, the women of Great Paxford will need all their strength . . . As enemy planes continue to bombard the North West of England, the members of Great Paxford's WI fight harder than ever to persevere. Teresa Lucas has reshaped her life to become the perfect wife - but will the arrival of a new guest throw her world off kilter? Laura Campbell is grieving for her father, but in the midst of tragedy, a new future beckons. Pat Simms plans to escape her difficult life at the end of the war, but when things change at home, she finds herself questioning everything she thought she knew. And for Steph Farrow, it's not the threat of what's to come she fears, but whether she can live with what she has done . . .
Author : Mandy Robotham
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,25 MB
Release : 2018-12-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0008339317
The USA Today Best Seller. An enthralling new tale of courage, betrayal and survival in the hardest of circumstances that readers of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, The Secret Orphan and My Name is Eva will love.
Author : Gail Harris
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 34,37 MB
Release : 2009-12-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0810871009
When Gail Harris was assigned by the U.S. Navy to a combat intelligence job in 1973, she became the first African American female to hold such a position. Her 28-year career included hands on leadership in the intelligence community during every major conflict from the Cold War to Desert Storm to Kosovo, and most recently at the forefront of one of the Department of Defense's newest challenges: Cyber Warfare. At her retirement, she was the highest ranking African American female in the Navy. A Woman's War: The Professional and Personal Journey of the Navy's First African American Female Intelligence Officer is an inspirational memoir that follows Gail Harris's career as a naval intelligence officer, sharing her unique experience and perspective as she completed the complex task of providing intelligence support to military operations while also battling the status quo, office bullies, and politics. This book also looks at the way intelligence is used and misused in these perilous times.
Author : Maj. Gen. Mari K. Eder
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 46,27 MB
Release : 2021-08-03
Category : History
ISBN : 1728230934
For fans of Radium Girls and history and WWII buffs, The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line takes you inside the lives and experiences of 15 unknown women heroes from the Greatest Generation, the women who served, fought, struggled, and made things happen during WWII—in and out of uniform—for theirs is a legacy destined to embolden generations of women to come. From daring spies to audacious pilots, from innovative scientists to indomitable resistance fighters, these extraordinary women stepped out of line and into history, forever altering the world's landscape. This page-turning narrative, crafted with meticulous historical accuracy by retired U.S. Army Major General Mari K. Eder, provides a fresh perspective on the integral roles that women played during WWII. Liane B. Russell fled Austria with nothing and later became a renowned U.S. scientist whose research on the effects of radiation on embryos made a difference to thousands of lives. Gena Turgel was a prisoner who worked in the hospital at Bergen-Belsen and cared for the young Anne Frank, who was dying of typhus. Gena survived and went on to write a memoir and spent her life educating children about the Holocaust. Ida and Louise Cook were British sisters who repeatedly smuggled out jewelry and furs and served as sponsors for refugees, and they also established temporary housing for immigrant families in London. Whether you're a history enthusiast, a lover of powerful women's stories, or an avid reader of WWII nonfiction, The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line is a must-read and a poignant testament to the forgotten women who stepped up when the world needed them most.
Author : Светлана Алексиевич
Publisher :
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 12,68 MB
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 0399588728
"Originally published in Russian as U voiny--ne zhenskoe lietiso by Mastatskaya Litaratura, Minsk, in 1985. Originally published in English as War's unwomanly face by Progress Publishers, Moscow, in 1988"--Title page verso.
Author : Stephanie McCurry
Publisher : Belknap Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 20,78 MB
Release : 2019-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0674987977
Winner of the PEN Oakland–Josephine Miles Award “A stunning portrayal of a tragedy endured and survived by women.” —David W. Blight, author of Frederick Douglass “Readers expecting hoop-skirted ladies soothing fevered soldiers’ brows will not find them here...Explodes the fiction that men fight wars while women idle on the sidelines.” —Washington Post The idea that women are outside of war is a powerful myth, one that shaped the Civil War and still determines how we write about it today. Through three dramatic stories that span the war, Stephanie McCurry invites us to see America’s bloodiest conflict for what it was: not just a brothers’ war but a women’s war. When Union soldiers faced the unexpected threat of female partisans, saboteurs, and spies, long held assumptions about the innocence of enemy women were suddenly thrown into question. McCurry shows how the case of Clara Judd, imprisoned for treason, transformed the writing of Lieber’s Code, leading to lasting changes in the laws of war. Black women’s fight for freedom had no place in the Union military’s emancipation plans. Facing a massive problem of governance as former slaves fled to their ranks, officers reclassified black women as “soldiers’ wives”—placing new obstacles on their path to freedom. Finally, McCurry offers a new perspective on the epic human drama of Reconstruction through the story of one slaveholding woman, whose losses went well beyond the material to intimate matters of family, love, and belonging, mixing grief with rage and recasting white supremacy in new, still relevant terms. “As McCurry points out in this gem of a book, many historians who view the American Civil War as a ‘people’s war’ nevertheless neglect the actions of half the people.” —James M. McPherson, author of Battle Cry of Freedom “In this brilliant exposition of the politics of the seemingly personal, McCurry illuminates previously unrecognized dimensions of the war’s elemental impact.” —Drew Gilpin Faust, author of This Republic of Suffering
Author : Virginia M. Wright-Peterson
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 41,47 MB
Release : 2020
Category : United States
ISBN : 9781681341521
"During World War II, women in Minnesota-like women across the country-made bold, unconventional, and important contributions to the war effort. They enlisted in all branches of the military and worked for the military as civilians. They labored in factories, mines, and shipyards. They were also tireless peace activists, and they worked to relocate interned Japanese American citizens and European refugees. They served as cryptologists, journalists, pilots, riveters, factory workers, nurses, entertainers, and spies. This rich chronological account relates dramatic stories of women discovering their own potential in a time of national need, surprising themselves and others-and setting the roots of second-wave feminism."--