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We Are a College at War: Women Working for Victory in World War II
Weaks-Baxter, Mary, Bruun, Christine, Forslund, Catherine
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Description for We Are a College at War: Women Working for Victory in World War II
Hardcover. Num Pages: 256 pages, 20 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLW; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 503.
We Are a College at War weaves together the World War II experiences of students and faculty at Rockford College in Rockford, Illinois, to provide readers with a better understanding of the role American women and college students played during this defining period in U.S. history. Drawing on the Rockford community’s letters, speeches, and campus newspaper archives, the authors demonstrate how women claimed the right to be everywhere—in factories and other traditionally male workplaces, and even on the front lines—and link their efforts to the rise of feminism and the fight for women’s rights in the 1960s and 1970s. In ... Read more
We Are a College at War weaves together the World War II experiences of students and faculty at Rockford College in Rockford, Illinois, to provide readers with a better understanding of the role American women and college students played during this defining period in U.S. history. Drawing on the Rockford community’s letters, speeches, and campus newspaper archives, the authors demonstrate how women claimed the right to be everywhere—in factories and other traditionally male workplaces, and even on the front lines—and link their efforts to the rise of feminism and the fight for women’s rights in the 1960s and 1970s. In ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Southern Illinois University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Carbondale, United States
ISBN
9780809329922
SKU
V9780809329922
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About Weaks-Baxter, Mary, Bruun, Christine, Forslund, Catherine
Mary Weaks-Baxter, Hazel Koch Professor of English at Rockford College, is the author of Reclaiming the American Farmer: The Reinvention of a Regional Mythology in Twentieth-Century Southern Writing. Christine Bruun is Professor Emerita of Psychology and former department chair at Rockford College. Catherine Forslund, Professor of History at Rockford College, is the author of Anna Chennault: Informal Diplomacy and Asian ... Read more
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