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Author : Mark J. Crowley,Sandra Trudgen Dawson
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 41,6 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 : Stacey Barker,Molly McCullough
Publisher : Souvenir Catalogue Series, 13
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 0660203111
Experience the incredible determination, resilience and sacrifice of Canadian women during the First and Second World Wars. War brought enormous changes to Canadian women's lives. They adapted to the conditions of total war in practical terms ? working, volunteering and serving in uniform. In the wake of war's inevitable tragedies, they also faced other challenges. The contributions made by women to the Canadian war efforts were crucial, and their experiences forged a new understanding of women's capabilities both within themselves and within society. Through photographs, artwork, diaries and mementoes, including a Memorial Cross presented to the mother of a fallen soldier, this souvenir catalogue reveals deeply personal stories of life in service and on the home front.
Author : Mark J. Crowley,Sandra Trudgen Dawson
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 52,6 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 : Gail Braybon,Penny Summerfield
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780415622677
Originally published in 1987, Out of the Cage brings vividly to life the experiences of working women from all social groups in the two World Wars. Telling a fascinating story, the authors emphasise what the women themselves have had to say, in diaries, memoirs, letters and recorded interviews about the call up, their personal reactions to war, their feelings about pay and the company at work, the effects of war on their health, their relations with men and their home lives; they speak too about how demobilisation affected them, and how they spent the years between two World Wars.
Author : Mari K. Eder
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781728230931
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. The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line are the heroes of the Greatest Generation that you hardly ever hear about. These women who did extraordinary things didn't expect thanks and shied away from medals and recognition. Despite their amazing accomplishments, they've gone mostly unheralded and unrewarded. No longer. These are the women of World War II who served, fought, struggled, and made things happen—in and out of uniform. Young Hilda Eisen was captured twice by the Nazis and twice escaped, going on to fight with the Resistance in Poland. Determined to survive, she and her husband later emigrated to the U.S. where they became entrepreneurs and successful business leaders. Ola Mildred Rexroat was the only Native American woman pilot to serve with the Women's Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) in World War II. She persisted against all odds—to earn her silver wings and fly, helping train other pilots and gunners. Ida and Louise Cook were British sisters and opera buffs who smuggled Jews out of Germany, often wearing their jewelry and furs, to help with their finances. They served as sponsors for refugees, and established temporary housing for immigrant families in London. Alice Marble was a grand-slam winning tennis star who found her own path to serve during the war—she was an editor with Wonder Woman comics, played tennis exhibitions for the troops, and undertook a dangerous undercover mission to expose Nazi theft. After the war she was instrumental in desegregating women's professional tennis. Others also stepped out of line—as cartographers, spies, combat nurses, and troop commanders. Retired U.S. Army Major General Mari K. Eder wrote this book because she knew their stories needed to be told—and the sooner the better. For theirs is a legacy destined to embolden generations of women to come.
Author : Hanna Diamond
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317885443
This is the first book (in either English or French) to offer readers an overview of women's experience of the Second World War and its immediate aftermath in France. It examines objectively the part that women played in both collaboration and resistance, synthesising much recent scholarship on the subject in French and English, and drawing on the author's own extensive research (including oral testimony) in Toulouse, Paris, and West Brittany. The findings are complex, and the immensely varied testimony challenges easy generalisation. This will be relevant for courses on French studies, French and European history and Women's studies.
Author : Julia Brock,Jennifer W. Dickey,Richard Harker,Catherine Lewis
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781557286703
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.
Author : Precious Yamaguchi
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780739192436
Experiences of Japanese American Women during and after World War II: Living in Internment Camps and Rebuilding Life Afterwards examines the experiences of Japanese American women who were in internment camps during World War II and after. Precious Yamaguchi follows these women after they were released and shows how they tried to rebuild their lives after losing everything. Using evidence from primary sources as well as over seven years of interviews with sixteen women, Yamaguchi provides a feminist, intergenerational, and historical study of how unequal the justice system has been to this group of people and how it has affected their quality of life, sense of identity, and relationship with future generations.
Author : Eveline Buchheim,Ralf Futselaar
Publisher : Uitgeverij Verloren
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Women and war
ISBN : 9789087044756
Since the 1970s, when the dominance of military histories of the World Wars ended, and social historical histories of conflict rose to prominence, women have come to play an increasingly important role in mainstream stories about the Second World War. Although this is undeniably a valuable development, the perspectives on women that arose have in many respects remained limiting – although in new ways. Women have been portrayed as carers, as victims (notably of sexual violence), but rarely as agents of their own fate. This volume focuses on this last group. In spite of the undeniable suffering and victimization that befell so many women during the war, for others the war also opened opportunities and awakened ambitions. The articles in this volume, which cover both Europe and Asia, bring together some of the women who took initiatives, of which they sometimes suffered the dire consequences, sometimes enjoyed the fruits.
Author : Margaret R. Higonnet,Jane Jenson,Sonya Michel
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 47,8 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 : Kathryn J. Atwood,Muriel Phillips Engelman
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-06
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781641600095
Noor Inayat Khan was the first female radio operator sent into occupied France and transferred crucial messages to the Resistance. Johtje Vos, a Dutch housewife, hid Jews in her home and repeatedly outsmarted the Gestapo. Law student Hannie Schaft became involved in the most dangerous resistance work—sabotage, weapons transference, and assassinations. Soviet pilot Anna Yegorova flew missions against the Germans on the Eastern Front in an all-male regiment, eventually becoming a squadron leader. In these pages, young readers will meet these and many other similarly courageous women and girls who risked their lives to help defeat the Nazis. Thirty-two engaging and suspense-filled stories unfold from across Germany, Poland, the Netherlands, France, Belgium, Denmark, Great Britain, the United States and, in this expanded edition, the Soviet Union, providing an inspiring reminder of women and girls' refusal to sit on the sidelines around the world and throughout history. An overview of World War II and summaries of each country's entrance and involvement in the war provide a framework for better understanding each woman's unique circumstances, and resources for further learning follow each profile. Women Heroes of World War II is an invaluable addition to any student's or history buff's bookshelf.
Author : Rachel Vogeleisen
Publisher : Mereo Books, mereobook, mereobooks
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781861513960
ÿRachel Vogeleisen is a professional photographer specialising in women's portraits and fashion. Her fascination with the Second World War was sparked by her discovery as a child that her grandfather, from Alsace, had had to fight for the Germans against Russia. This book, the culmination of ten years of research, is a collection of portraits and testimonials recording the experiences of 21 women who volunteered during World War II, interviewed by the author. The accounts have been left as far as possible in the women?s original words, so that their voices can be heard clearly and faithfully. The women featured in this book are among many who did much behind the scenes without much in the way of recognition. It was not until 2005 that their contribution to the war effort was recognised with a memorial dedicated to the women of World War Two in Whitehall, London. These women are some of the last alive to speak about their wartime experiences in their own words.
Author : Hanna Diamond
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Women
ISBN : STANFORD:36105024881034
Hanna Diamond presents varied testimony to reveal the realities of women's daily lives and the role they played in both collaboration and resistance. She considers the political choices they had to make and the constraints they were under.
Author : Светлана Алексиевич
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9780399588723
"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 : Kathryn S. Dobie
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 9780595303731
A nurse administers anesthetic with the aid of a flashlight as snipers try to pick off members of a U.S. surgical team in Algiers. One member of the Women Airforce Service Pilots tows targets for U.S. antiaircraft trainees, while another test flies repaired military aircraft in Texas. Another American woman in the Philippines smuggles food and medicine to prisoners who survived the Death March on Bataan. In Her War, American women tell the personal, largely unknown stories of their experiences serving their country in World War II. These are not reminiscences recalled through the 60-year haze of memory. These narratives carry the immediacy of the moment, recounted as they occurred or shortly after the war. The women's courage, endurance, and humor shine throughout these first hand dramas. Her War is a verbal quilt of American women's contributions in World War II.