Women Recall the War Years
Author | : George L. MacDermott |
Publisher | : Professional Press (NC) |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : George L. MacDermott |
Publisher | : Professional Press (NC) |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Alison Owings |
Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 546 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780813522005 |
Analyses the group and individual decision making processes in terms of the sociological, psychological, and quantitative aspects.
Author | : Nancy Baker Wise |
Publisher | : Jossey-Bass |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1994-10-11 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
An oral history of the women who took part in the war effort on the home front.
Author | : Pam Schweitzer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Reminiscing in old age |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Janet Morana |
Publisher | : TAN Books |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2013-01-24 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 161890129X |
Bad products are recalled every day: the Ford Pinto, faulty tires, dangerous prescription pills, contaminated lettuce. If a product is found to pose even a modest risk to those who use it, you can bet it will soon be pulled from the market. . . . Unless that product is abortion.
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.
Author | : Virginia Nicholson |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 343 |
Release | : 2008-10-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199703043 |
Almost three-quarters of a million British soldiers lost their lives during the First World War, and many more were incapacitated by their wounds, leaving behind a generation of women who, raised to see marriage as "the crown and joy of woman's life," suddenly discovered that they were left without an escort to life's great feast. Drawing upon a wealth of moving memoirs, Singled Out tells the inspiring stories of these women: the student weeping for a lost world as the Armistice bells pealed, the socialite who dedicated her life to resurrecting the ancient past after her soldier love was killed, the Bradford mill girl whose campaign to better the lot of the "War spinsters" was to make her a public figure--and many others who, deprived of their traditional roles, reinvented themselves into something better. Tracing their fates, Nicholson shows that these women did indeed harbor secret sadness, and many of them yearned for the comforts forever denied them--physical intimacy, the closeness of a loving relationship, and children. Some just endured, but others challenged the conventions, fought the system, and found fulfillment outside of marriage. From the mill-girl turned activist to the debutante turned archeologist, from the first woman stockbroker to the "business girls" and the Miss Jean Brodies, this book memorializes a generation of young women who were forced, by four of the bloodiest years in human history, to stop depending on men for their income, their identity, and their future happiness. Indeed, Singled Out pays homage to this remarkable generation of women who, changed by war, in turn would change society.
Author | : Susan Meissner |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 2020-04-07 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0451492161 |
From the acclaimed author of Secrets of a Charmed Life and As Bright as Heaven comes a novel about a German American teenager whose life changes forever when her immigrant family is sent to an internment camp during World War II. In 1943, Elise Sontag is a typical American teenager from Iowa—aware of the war but distanced from its reach. Then her father, a legal U.S. resident for nearly two decades, is suddenly arrested on suspicion of being a Nazi sympathizer. The family is sent to an internment camp in Texas, where, behind the armed guards and barbed wire, Elise feels stripped of everything beloved and familiar, including her own identity. The only thing that makes the camp bearable is meeting fellow internee Mariko Inoue, a Japanese-American teen from Los Angeles, whose friendship empowers Elise to believe the life she knew before the war will again be hers. Together in the desert wilderness, Elise and Mariko hold tight the dream of being young American women with a future beyond the fences. But when the Sontag family is exchanged for American prisoners behind enemy lines in Germany, Elise will face head-on the person the war desires to make of her. In that devastating crucible she must discover if she has the will to rise above prejudice and hatred and re-claim her own destiny, or disappear into the image others have cast upon her. The Last Year of the War tells a little-known story of World War II with great resonance for our own times and challenges the very notion of who we are when who we’ve always been is called into question.
Author | : Mari K. Eder |
Publisher | : Sourcebooks, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2021-08-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1728230934 |
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 | : Jean Bethke Elshtain |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 317 |
Release | : 1995-07-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0226206262 |
Jean Elshtain examines how the myths of Man as "Just Warrior" and Woman as "Beautiful Soul" serve to recreate and secure women's social position as noncombatants and men's identity as warriors. Elshtain demonstrates how these myths are undermined by the reality of female bellicosity and sacrificial male love, as well as the moral imperatives of just wars.