LEADER 05980cam a2200553 a 4500001 280749 005 20210920145748.0 008 040205s2004 nyua b 001 0deng 010 2004040496 035 (OCoLC)ocm54407680 040 DLC |beng |cDLC |dMNY |dNOR |dBAKER |dUWC |dXY4 |dBTCTA |dYDXCP |dTTU |dHEBIS |dOCLCQ |dOCLCF |dOCLCQ |dOCLCO |dOVY |dOCL |dWYZ |dMWB |dOCLCO |dXBE |dOCLCQ |dOCLCO |dOKR |dBRL |dOCLCQ |dOCLCO |dOCLCA |dOCL |dIL4J6 |dLHM 019 10833869051201962087 020 0743245148 020 9780743245142 020 0743245164 020 9780743245166 024 30 9780743245142 043 n-us--- 050 00 D810.W7 |bY45 2004 049 LHMA 100 1 Yellin, Emily, |d1961- 245 10 Our mothers' war : |bAmerican women at home and at the Front during World War II / |cEmily Yellin. 260 New York : |bFree Press, |c©2004. 300 xiv, 447 pages : |billustrations ; |c24 cm 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 415-428) and index. 505 0 Prologue : For Carol Lynn : unearthing our mothers' war years -- To bring him home safely : wives, mothers, and sisters of servicemen -- Soldiers without guns : female defense industry workers -- Putting up a good front : female entertainers, fictional characters, and icons -- This man's army : WACs -- On duty at home : WAVES, SPARs, marines, and WASPs -- Save his life and find your own : volunteers, Land Army, Red Cross Girls, and nurses -- Jane Crow : African-American women -- Behind enemy lines : spies, propaganda workers, and those who worked for the enemy -- A question of loyalty : Japanese-American women -- Qualified successes : politicians, journalists, doctors, baseball players, and other professional women -- The "wrong kind" of woman : prostitutes, unwed mothers, and lesbians -- A war within the war : right-wing, anti-Semitic mothers' groups and Jewish-American women -- Inside the secret city : wives and WACs in Los Alamos -- Epilogue : Their legacy : our mothers' war years resounding through our lives -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- Permission credits. 520 Our Mothers' War is a stunning and unprecedented portrait of women during World War II, a war that forever transformed the way women participate in American society. Never before has the vast range of American women's experience during this pivotal era been brought together in one book. Now, Our Mothers' War re-creates what American women from all walks of life were doing and thinking, on the home front and abroad. Like all great histories, Our Mothers' War began with an illuminating discovery. After finding a journal and letters her mother had written while serving with the Red Cross in the Pacific, journalist Emily Yellin started unearthing what her mother and other women of her mother's generation went through during a time when their country asked them to step into roles they had never been invited, or allowed, to fill before. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including personal interviews and previously unpublished letters and diaries, Yellin shows what went on in the hearts and minds of the real women behind the female images of World War II -- women working in war plants; mothers and wives sending their husbands and sons off to war and sometimes death; women joining the military for the first time in American history; nurses operating in battle zones in Europe, Africa, and the Pacific; and housewives coping with rationing. Yellin also delves into lesser-known stories, including: tales of female spies, pilots, movie stars, baseball players, politicians, prostitutes, journalists, and even fictional characters; firsthand accounts from the wives of the scientists who created the atomic bomb at Los Alamos, African-American women who faced Jim Crow segregation laws at home even as their men were fighting enemy bigotry and injustice abroad, and Japanese-American women locked up as prisoners in their own country. Yellin explains how Wonder Woman was created in 1941 to fight the Nazi menace and became the first female comic book superhero, as well as how Marilyn Monroe was discovered in 1944 while working with her mother-in-law packing parachutes at a war plant in Burbank, California. Our Mothers' War gives center stage to those who might be called "the other American soldiers." A tribute to the contributions of women during World War II examines how the war transformed traditional women's roles, drawing on letters, diaries, and interviews to describe the experiences of nurses, factory employees, the military's first women soldiers, female prisoners of war, and others. 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xWomen |zUnited States. 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xParticipation, Female. 650 0 Women |zUnited States |xHistory |y20th century. 650 7 Military participation |xFemale. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01353719 650 7 Women. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01176568 651 7 United States. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01204155 650 7 Weltkrieg |g1939-1945 |2gnd |0(DE-588)4079167-1 650 7 World War, 1939-1945 |xWomen |zUnited States. |2nli 650 07 Frau. |2swd 651 7 USA. |2swd 647 7 World War |d(1939-1945) |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01180924 648 7 1900-1999 |2fast 655 7 History. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01411628 856 41 |3Sample text |uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0705/2004040496-s.html 856 41 |3Table of contents |uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy045/2004040496.html 856 42 |3Book review (H-Net) |uhttp://www.h-net.org/review/hrev-a0e1e2-aa 856 42 |3Contributor biographical information |uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/bios/simon053/2004040496.html 856 42 |3Publisher description |uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/description/simon051/2004040496.html 852 0 |breceiving |kShelved at 49-5-7