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American Women in a World at War

Contemporary Accounts from World War II

Edited by Judy Barrett Litoff and David C. Smith

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 the six sections listed below:

  • Preparing for War

  • In the Military

  • At 'Far-Flung' Fronts

  • On the Home Front

  • War Jobs

  • Preparing for the Postwar World

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    Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
    Pages: 237 • Trim: 6 x 9
    978-0-8420-2571-3 • Paperback • December 1996 • $52.00 • (£40.00)
    978-0-7425-9922-2 • eBook • December 1996 • $49.00 • (£38.00)
    Subjects: History / Military / United States, History / Military / World War II, History / United States / 20th Century, Social Science / Women's Studies
    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.

    Chapter 1 Introduction
    Chapter 2 I Preparing for War
    Chapter 3 Women for Defense
    Chapter 4 Women in the War
    Chapter 5 The Negro Woman in National Defense
    Chapter 6 II In the Military
    Chapter 7 Yes, Ma'am!: The Personal Papers of a WAAC Private
    Chapter 8 The WAVES: The Story of the Girls in Blue
    Chapter 9 Three Years Behind the Mast
    Chapter 10 Shakedown Cruise
    Chapter 11 III At Far-Flung Fronts
    Chapter 12 Navy Nurse
    Chapter 13 I Served on Bataan
    Chapter 14 G.I. Nightingale
    Chapter 15 Home Away from Home
    Chapter 16 I Knew Your Soldier
    Chapter 17 Shooting the Russian War
    Chapter 18 IV On the Home Front
    Chapter 19 Camp Follower
    Chapter 20 If Your Baby Must Travel in Wartime
    Chapter 21 So Your Husband's Gone to War!
    Chapter 22 The Negro Woman Serves America
    Chapter 23 War Jobs
    Chapter 24 Arms and the Girl
    Chapter 25 Negro Women War Workers
    Chapter 26 Shipyard Diary of a Woman Welder
    Chapter 27 Women and Farm Work
    Chapter 28 VI Preparing for the Postwar World
    Chapter 29 Out of the Kitchen?Into the War
    Chapter 30 Women Workers in Transition from War to Peace
    Chapter 31 Women's Responsibility in World Affairs
    Chapter 32 Our Stake in Tomorrow's World
    Chapter 33 Suggested Readings
    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.....
    —


    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


    With the publication of American Women in a World at War, we know that women of all races and classes fought on both the home front and the battlefront. An invaluable collection of contemporary accounts by American women who fought the war.....
    — William M. Tuttle Jr., author of Race Riot: Chicago in the Red Summer of 1919 and Daddy's Gone to War The Second World War in the Lives of America's Children


    The women here almost leap from the pages and pull the reader into their stories. Thanks to Litoff and SMith for retrieving this crucial segment of women's history.....
    — Glenda Riley


    An interesting book, pioneering in many ways, and a definite contribution to the history of U.S. participation in World War II, its stories gathered into a bouquet of historical documentation.....
    —


    American Women in a World at War

    Contemporary Accounts from World War II

    Cover Image
    Paperback
    eBook
    Summary
    Summary
    • 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 the six sections listed below:

    • Preparing for War

    • In the Military

    • At 'Far-Flung' Fronts

    • On the Home Front

    • War Jobs

    • Preparing for the Postwar World

    Details
    Details
    • Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
      Pages: 237 • Trim: 6 x 9
      978-0-8420-2571-3 • Paperback • December 1996 • $52.00 • (£40.00)
      978-0-7425-9922-2 • eBook • December 1996 • $49.00 • (£38.00)
      Subjects: History / Military / United States, History / Military / World War II, History / United States / 20th Century, Social Science / Women's Studies
    Author
    Author
    • 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.
    Table of Contents
    Table of Contents

    • Chapter 1 Introduction
      Chapter 2 I Preparing for War
      Chapter 3 Women for Defense
      Chapter 4 Women in the War
      Chapter 5 The Negro Woman in National Defense
      Chapter 6 II In the Military
      Chapter 7 Yes, Ma'am!: The Personal Papers of a WAAC Private
      Chapter 8 The WAVES: The Story of the Girls in Blue
      Chapter 9 Three Years Behind the Mast
      Chapter 10 Shakedown Cruise
      Chapter 11 III At Far-Flung Fronts
      Chapter 12 Navy Nurse
      Chapter 13 I Served on Bataan
      Chapter 14 G.I. Nightingale
      Chapter 15 Home Away from Home
      Chapter 16 I Knew Your Soldier
      Chapter 17 Shooting the Russian War
      Chapter 18 IV On the Home Front
      Chapter 19 Camp Follower
      Chapter 20 If Your Baby Must Travel in Wartime
      Chapter 21 So Your Husband's Gone to War!
      Chapter 22 The Negro Woman Serves America
      Chapter 23 War Jobs
      Chapter 24 Arms and the Girl
      Chapter 25 Negro Women War Workers
      Chapter 26 Shipyard Diary of a Woman Welder
      Chapter 27 Women and Farm Work
      Chapter 28 VI Preparing for the Postwar World
      Chapter 29 Out of the Kitchen?Into the War
      Chapter 30 Women Workers in Transition from War to Peace
      Chapter 31 Women's Responsibility in World Affairs
      Chapter 32 Our Stake in Tomorrow's World
      Chapter 33 Suggested Readings
    Reviews
    Reviews
    • 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.....
      —


      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


      With the publication of American Women in a World at War, we know that women of all races and classes fought on both the home front and the battlefront. An invaluable collection of contemporary accounts by American women who fought the war.....
      — William M. Tuttle Jr., author of Race Riot: Chicago in the Red Summer of 1919 and Daddy's Gone to War The Second World War in the Lives of America's Children


      The women here almost leap from the pages and pull the reader into their stories. Thanks to Litoff and SMith for retrieving this crucial segment of women's history.....
      — Glenda Riley


      An interesting book, pioneering in many ways, and a definite contribution to the history of U.S. participation in World War II, its stories gathered into a bouquet of historical documentation.....
      —


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