Author: United States. Office of War InformationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
War Jobs for Women
Author: United States. Office of War InformationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
War Jobs for Women
Author: United States. Office of War InformationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 45
Book Description
Willingness of Women to Take War Jobs
Author: United States. Office of War InformationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 18
Book Description
Women at the Front
Author: Jane E. SchultzPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807864153
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
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.
Your Questions as to Women in War Industries: Types of Jobs
Author: Mary Elizabeth PidgeonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Woman
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
Beyond Rosie
Author: Julia BrockPublisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 1557286701
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
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.
War Jobs for Women
Author: Women in the War for the Final Push to Victory
Author: United States. Office of War InformationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
Code Girls
Author: Liza MundyPublisher: Hachette Books
ISBN: 0316352551
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
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.
Women Workers in Ten War Production Areas and Their Postwar Employment Plans
Author: Sylvia Rosenberg WeissbrodtPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description