In Uncle Sam's Service : : Women Workers with the American Expeditionary Force, 1917-1919 /

In Uncle Sam's Service : : Women Workers with the American Expeditionary Force, 1917-1919 / / Susan Zeiger.

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'-monopolized publ...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Zeiger, Susan,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]
©2000
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (224 p.) :; 16 halftones, 4 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • 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

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