Patricia Chappine

New Jersey Women during World War II

On the Home Front and Abroad

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the experiences that detail the wartime narrative of New Jersey women on the home front and abroad and describes the impact these women had as they pushed past gendered social boundaries and joined the war effort in numbers greater than any previous generation of Americans.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 555g
• ISBN-13: 9781666931167
• ISBN-10: 1666931160
• Artikelnr.: 68887626

Autorenporträt

Patricia Chappine is adjunct professor at Stockton University, where she teaches courses in Holocaust and genocide studies and Historical studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1: "Do with less-so they'll have Enough": The Home Front
Chapter 2: "Investigate, Agitate, Legislate": The League of Women Voters
and the Consumers League
Chapter 3: "Do the Job he Left Behind": War Workers
Chapter 4: "Above and Beyond the Call of Duty": Black Women in World War II
Chapter 5: "Are you a Girl with a Star-Spangled Heart?": The Women's Army
Corps
Chapter 6: "Free a Man to Fight": The WAVES, SPAR, Marines, and WASP
Chapter 7: "Your Country Needs You": Military Nurses
Chapter 8: "Doing Their Bit": The USO
Chapter 9: Organizing the Home Front: The American Women's Voluntary
Services
Chapter 10: "Volunteer for Victory": The Red Cross
Conclusion
Bibliography
About the Author