Women at Work in Wartime
Author | : Katherine Glover |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 1943 |
Genre | : Women |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Katherine Glover |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 1943 |
Genre | : Women |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Karen Anderson |
Publisher | : Praeger |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 1981-04-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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 | : Margaret R. Higonnet |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 1987-01-01 |
Genre | : 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 | : Maurine Weiner Greenwald |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780801497339 |
Author | : Julia Brock |
Publisher | : University of Arkansas Press |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2015-03-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1557286701 |
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 | : Liza Mundy |
Publisher | : Hachette Books |
Total Pages | : 524 |
Release | : 2017-10-10 |
Genre | : 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 | : Ann Kramer |
Publisher | : Grub Street Publishers |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2012-07-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1844683826 |
“A thrilling, challenging and educational book . . . examines the roles of spies such a Edith Cavell, Mata Hari, Violette Szabo and Noor Inayat Khan” (Pennant Magazine). Women spies have rarely received the recognition they deserve. They have often been trivialized and, in cinema and popular fiction, stereotyped as vamps or dupes. The reality is very different. As spies, women have played a critical role during wartime, receiving and passing on vital information, frequently at considerable risk. Often able to blend into their background more easily than their male counterparts, women have worked as couriers, transmitters, and with resistance fighters, their achievements often unknown. Many have died. Ann Kramer describes the role of women spies during wartime, with particular reference to the two world wars. She looks at why some women chose to become spies, their motives, and backgrounds. She looks at the experience of women spies during wartime, what training they received, and what skills they needed. She examines the reality of life for a woman spy, operating behind enemy lines, and explores and explodes the myths about women spies that continue until the present day. The focus is mainly on Britain but also takes an international view as appropriate. “Tells the often surprising stories of some of the women who chose to become spies and to serve their country . . . An excellent work.” —The Great War Magazine
Author | : Ruth Milkman |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : 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 | : Jane E. Schultz |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 2005-12-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0807864153 |
As many as 20,000 women worked in Union and Confederate hospitals during America's bloodiest war. Black and white, and from various social classes, these women served as nurses, administrators, matrons, seamstresses, cooks, laundresses, and custodial workers. Jane E. Schultz provides the first full history of these female relief workers, showing how the domestic and military arenas merged in Civil War America, blurring the line between homefront and battlefront. Schultz uses government records, private manuscripts, and published sources by and about women hospital workers, some of whom are familiar--such as Dorothea Dix, Clara Barton, Louisa May Alcott, and Sojourner Truth--but most of whom are not well-known. Examining the lives and legacies of these women, Schultz considers who they were, how they became involved in wartime hospital work, how they adjusted to it, and how they challenged it. She demonstrates that class, race, and gender roles linked female workers with soldiers, both black and white, but became sites of conflict between the women and doctors and even among themselves. Schultz also explores the women's postwar lives--their professional and domestic choices, their pursuit of pensions, and their memorials to the war in published narratives. Surprisingly few parlayed their war experience into postwar medical work, and their extremely varied postwar experiences, Schultz argues, defy any simple narrative of pre-professionalism, triumphalism, or conciliation.
Author | : Светлана Алексиевич |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : 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.