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Author : Margaret R. Higonnet,Jane Jenson,Sonya Michel
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1987-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300044291
Essays analyze the two world wars in respect to gender politics and reassesses the differences between men and women in relation to war
Author : Paul Chrystal
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2024-02-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781399071277
This book is about women in World Wars I & II - women working in factories and on farms, or toiling perilously in field stations just behind the front lines, in inhospitable hospitals and convalescent homes. It is, therefore, about the prodigious contribution women made to the war efforts from 1914-1918 and 1939-1945, standing in for the men who had left their places of work for the various theatres of war from Greece and Italy to Belgium, from Mesopotamia to France. Their tasks were many and various: keeping the troops supplied with shells, bullets and explosives, keeping the nation from starving to death, keeping hundreds of thousands of wounded troops alive so that they might fight another day. The book is, in short, the uplifting but sometimes tragic story of the many women who stepped up to work in the factories, hospitals, field stations, in transport and in civil defense, on the farms and shipyards, or signed up to the various military and civil services during the two world wars of the 20th century, ‘wars to end all wars…’. The book is different because it deals with women’s labour in both world wars and in all occupations, it covers the discrimination and prejudice they faced from men at every level, military and civilian, even when they had demonstrated beyond doubt that they were quick learners, industrious and proficient, and usually as good as any man. The book raises the embarrassing question why it has it taken so long for the prodigious contribution women made in both wars to be recognized, and why some women workers still remain air brushed from our military history after more than a century. As it turned out, little was beyond their capabilities and it is reasonable to suppose that without their huge efforts and accomplishments both wars might have turned out very differently for us.
Author : Mark J. Crowley,Sandra Trudgen Dawson
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783275878
Using a very wide range of detailed sources, the book surveys the many different experiences of women during the Second World War.
Author : Karen Anderson
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1981-04-29
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X000325687
artime Women examines in detail the short-term changes of the war years; the jobs in war plants and support services; the effects of women's earnings on family finances; the response of trade unions. Anderson shows that the seeds of the postwar denial of women's equal participation were present in the ambivalence of wartime attitudes. Crammed with information perceptively interpreted.
Author : Nancy Baker Wise,Christy Wise
Publisher : Jossey-Bass
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1994-10-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : WISC:89063261747
An oral history of the women who took part in the war effort on the home front.
Author : BRENDA. RALPH LEWIS
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1782745475
Author : Doris Weatherford
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2009-10-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135201906
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 : Dalea Bean
Publisher : Springer
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319685854
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 : Ruth Milkman
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Sexual division of labor
ISBN : 0252013573
"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 : Virginia Wright-Peterson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 1681341514
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 : Elaine Tyler May
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2008-09-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786723461
In the 1950s, the term "containment" referred to the foreign policy-driven containment of Communism and atomic proliferation. Yet in Homeward Bound May demonstrates that there was also a domestic version of containment where the "sphere of influence" was the home. Within its walls, potentially dangerous social forces might be tamed, securing the fulfilling life to which postwar women and men aspired. Homeward Bound tells the story of domestic containment - how it emerged, how it affected the lives of those who tried to conform to it, and how it unraveled in the wake of the Vietnam era's assault on Cold War culture, when unwed mothers, feminists, and "secular humanists" became the new "enemy." This revised and updated edition includes the latest information on race, the culture wars, and current cultural and political controversies of the post-Cold War era.
Author : Liza Mundy
Publisher : Hachette Books
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780316352550
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 : Carrie Brown
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1555535356
This book restores to history the lives of American women involved in war work during World War I.
Author : Maurine Weiner Greenwald
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0801497337
Author : Frances Martin Day,Phyllis Spence,Barbara Ladouceur
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015048568615
In these Red Cross memoirs, some 30 women tell their stories of volunteer work with the Canadian Red Cross Corps in overseas postings during World War Two and the Korean War. These dramatic narratives take us across oceans infested with enemy submarines to witness Canadian women on duty in the U.K., in Europe and in Asia.The volunteers shouldered challenging and often dangerous jobs, working as nurse's aides, ambulance drivers, welfare officers, cooks, transport drivers and in the social clubs Canadian soldiers visited on leave. We learn how it feels to survive daily bombings and severe food shortages, to witness death and destruction all around, and to acquire the spirit and courage exhibited by so many "ordinary" people during the war.Laced with humour and filled with grace, these stories are a testament to the vital yet often overlooked responsibilities that thousands of women gallantly accepted for the Allied war effort. Women Overseas is a companion volume to the national bestseller Blackouts to Bright Lights: Canadian War Bride Stories. It contains many period photographs as well as an illuminating introduction to the Canadian Red Cross Corps.
