In Uncle Sam's service : women workers with the American Expeditionary Force, 1917-1919 /
"During World War I, the first American war in which women were mobilized on a mass scale by the armed services, more than sixteen thousand women served overseas with the American Expeditionary Force. Although wealthy women volunteers--members of the so-called 'heiress corps'--monopol...
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Ithaca, NY :
Cornell University Press
[2019]
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| Online adgang: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctvr7f8sj |
Indholdsfortegnelse:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Mobilizing Women For War
- 2. Getting Over There: A Social Analysis Of Women's Enlistment
- 3. Serving Doughnuts To The Doughboys: Auxiliary Workers In France
- 4. "The Stenographers Will Win The War": Army Office Workers And Telephone Operators
- 5. "Compassionate Sympathizers And Active Combatants": Army Nurses In France
- 6. Serving Uncle Sam: The Meaning Of Women's Wartime Service
- Notes
- Index