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Essays analyze the two world wars in respect to gender politics and reassesses the differences between men and women in relation to war
Author : Margaret R. Higonnet
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 25,24 MB
Release : 1987-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300044294
Essays analyze the two world wars in respect to gender politics and reassesses the differences between men and women in relation to war
Author : BRENDA. RALPH LEWIS
Publisher :
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,64 MB
Release : 2017-09-07
Category :
ISBN : 9781782745471
Author : Liza Mundy
Publisher : Hachette Books
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 27,91 MB
Release : 2017-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0316352551
The award-winning New York Times bestseller about the American women who secretly served as codebreakers during World War II--a "prodigiously researched and engrossing" (New York Times) book that "shines a light on a hidden chapter of American history" (Denver Post). Recruited by the U.S. Army and Navy from small towns and elite colleges, more than ten thousand women served as codebreakers during World War II. While their brothers and boyfriends took up arms, these women moved to Washington and learned the meticulous work of code-breaking. Their efforts shortened the war, saved countless lives, and gave them access to careers previously denied to them. A strict vow of secrecy nearly erased their efforts from history; now, through dazzling research and interviews with surviving code girls, bestselling author Liza Mundy brings to life this riveting and vital story of American courage, service, and scientific accomplishment.
Author : Doris Weatherford
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 25,84 MB
Release : 2009-10-16
Category : 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.
Author : Ruth Milkman
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 29,98 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Sexual division of labor
ISBN : 9780252013577
"By analyzing the process of work in both the electrical and the automobile industries, the supplies of male and female labor available to each, the varying degrees of labor-intensive work, the proportion of labor costs to total costs, and the extent of male resistance to female entry into the industry before, during, and after the war, Milkman offers a historically grounded and detailed examination of the evolution, function, and reproduction of job segregation by sex." -- Journal of American History "Analytic sophistication is coupled with a powerfully rendered narrative: the reader strides briskly along, enjoying one provocative insight after another while simultaneously absorbed by the drama of the events." -- Women's Review of Books
Author : Nancy Baker Wise
Publisher : Jossey-Bass
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 35,8 MB
Release : 1994-10-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
An oral history of the women who took part in the war effort on the home front.
Author : Glen Jeansonne
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 31,72 MB
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226395890
List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments 1: The Context of the World War II Mothers' Movement 2: Elizabeth Dilling and the Genesis of a Movement 3: The Fifth Column 4: The National Legion of Mothers of America 5: Cathrine Curtis and the Women's National Committee to Keep the U.S. Out of War 6: Dilling and the Crusade against Lend-Lease 7: Lyrl Clark Van Hyning and We the Mothers Mobilize for America 8: The Mothers' Movement in the Midwest: Cincinnati, Cleveland, and Detroit9: The Mothers' Movement in the East: Philadelphia and New York 10: Agnes Waters: The Lone Wolf of Dissent 11: The Mass Sedition Trial12: The Postwar Mothers' Movement 13: The Significance of the Mothers' Movement Epilogue: "Can We All Get Along?" Notes Bibliographical Essay Index Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Author : Светлана Алексиевич
Publisher :
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 14,2 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 : Dalea Bean
Publisher : Springer
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 42,23 MB
Release : 2017-12-04
Category : History
ISBN : 3319685856
This book highlights the important, yet often forgotten, roles that Jamaican women played in the World Wars. Predicated on the notion that warfare has historically been an agent of change, Dalea Bean contends that traces of this truism were in Jamaica and illustrates that women have historically been part of the war project, both as soldiers and civilians. This ground-breaking work fills a gap in the historiography of Jamaican women by positioning the World Wars as watershed periods for their changing roles and status in the colony. By unearthing critical themes such as women’s war work as civilians, recruitment of men for service in the British West India Regiment, the local suffrage movement in post-Great War Jamaica, and Jamaican women’s involvement as soldiers in the British Army during the Second World War, this book presents the most extensive and holistic account of Jamaican women’s involvement in the wars.
Author : Carrie Brown
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 45,45 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781555535353
This book restores to history the lives of American women involved in war work during World War I.