American Women in a World at War: Contemporary Accounts from World War II

Judy Barrett Litoff; David C. Smith

doi:10.5771/9780742599222

Summary

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.<P> 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:<P> Preparing for War In the Military At 'Far-Flung' Fronts On the Home Front War Jobs Preparing for the Postwar World </P></P>

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Bibliographic data

Edition: 1/1996
Copyright Year: 1996
ISBN-Print: 978-0-8420-2570-6
ISBN-Online: 978-0-7425-9922-2
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 237
Product Type: Edited Book

1. Aknowledgments No access
2. Contents No access
3. Introduction No access
1. 1 Women for Defense MARGARET CULKIN BANNING No access
2. 2 Women in the War ELIZABETH GURLEY FLYNN No access
3. 3 The Negro Woman in National Defense ANNABEL SAWYER No access
1. 4 Yes, Ma'am!: The Personal Papers of a WAAC Private ELIZABETH R. POLLOCK No access
2. 5 The WAVES: The Story of the Girls in Blue NANCY WILSON Ross No access
3. 6 Three Years Behind the Mast MARY C. LYNE AND KAY ARTHUR No access
4. 7 Shakedown Cruise E. LOUISE STEWART No access
1. 8 Navy Nurse PAGE COOPER No access
2. 9 I Served on Bataan JUANITA REDMOND No access
3. 10 G.I. Nightingale THERESA ARCHARD No access
4. 11 Home Away from Home JULIA M. H. CARSON No access
5. 12 I Knew Your Soldier ELEANOR "BUMPY" STEVENSON No access
6. 13 Shooting the Russian War MARGARET BOURKE-WHITE No access
1. 14 Camp Follower BARBARA KLAW No access
2. 15 If Your Baby Must Travel in Wartime V.S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR, CHILDREN'S BUREAU No access
3. 16 So Your Husband's Gone to War! ETHEL GORHAM No access
4. 17 The Negro Woman Serves America, Aframerican Woman 's Journal No access
1. 18 Arms and the Girl GULIELMA FELL ALSOP AND MARY F. McBRIDE No access
2. 19 Negro Women War Workers KATHRYN BLOOD No access
3. 20 Shipyard Diary of a Woman Welder AUGUSTA H. CLAWSON No access
4. 21 Women and Farm Work LESLIE TRESHAM AND THE V.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE No access
1. 22 Out of the Kitchen-Into the War SUSAN B. ANTHONY II No access
2. 23 Women Workers in Transition from War to Peace MARY ELIZABETH PIDGEON No access
3. 24 Women's Responsibility in World Affairs Lucy SOMERVILLE HOWORTH No access
4. 25 Our Stake in Tomorrow's World, MARY McLEOD BETHUNE No access
Suggested Readings No access Pages 233 - 237