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American Women in a World at War: Contemporary Accounts from World War II (The Worlds of Women Series): 1
. Ed(S): Litoff, Judy Barrett; Smith, David C.
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Description for American Women in a World at War: Contemporary Accounts from World War II (The Worlds of Women Series): 1
paperback. Brings together twenty-five writings by women who share their varied World War II experiences, from serving in the military to working on the home front to preparing for the postwar world. Editor(s): Litoff, Judy Barrett; Smith, David C. Series: The Worlds of Women Series. Num Pages: 237 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJH; BG; HBJD; HBJK; HBWQ; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 381.
This title brings together twenty-five writings by women who share their rich and varied World War II experiences, from serving in the military to working on the home front to preparing for the postwar world. By providing evidence of their active and resourceful roles in the war effort as workers, wives, and mothers, these women offer eloquent testimony that World War II was indeed everybody's war. Litoff and Smith combine pieces by well-known writers, such as Margaret Culkin Banning and Nancy Wilson Ross, with important-but largely forgotten-personal accounts by ordinary women living in extraordinary times. This volume is divided into ... Read more
This title brings together twenty-five writings by women who share their rich and varied World War II experiences, from serving in the military to working on the home front to preparing for the postwar world. By providing evidence of their active and resourceful roles in the war effort as workers, wives, and mothers, these women offer eloquent testimony that World War II was indeed everybody's war. Litoff and Smith combine pieces by well-known writers, such as Margaret Culkin Banning and Nancy Wilson Ross, with important-but largely forgotten-personal accounts by ordinary women living in extraordinary times. This volume is divided into ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers United States
Number of pages
237
Condition
New
Series
The Worlds of Women Series
Number of Pages
237
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780842025713
SKU
V9780842025713
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About . Ed(S): Litoff, Judy Barrett; Smith, David C.
Judy Barrett Litoff is professor of history at Bryant College. David C. Smith is Bird and Bird Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Maine.
Reviews for American Women in a World at War: Contemporary Accounts from World War II (The Worlds of Women Series): 1
American Women in a World at War provides abundant materials (many of which have been out of print) on gender, class and race during World War II.
Feminist Bookstore News
Well balanced by roles, race, and region, this collection provides fascinating insight into what it meant to be an American woman during World War II.
D'Ann Campbell, ... Read more
Feminist Bookstore News
Well balanced by roles, race, and region, this collection provides fascinating insight into what it meant to be an American woman during World War II.
D'Ann Campbell, ... Read more