Our mothers' war : American women at home and at the Front during World War II

The author describes the different roles of women during the Second World War, a war that changed the way women participate in the American society. Described are the lives of wives, mothers and sisters of servicemen; the female defence industry workers, the female entertainers, the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC), the Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES), women in the army, Red Cross Girls and nurses. The book contains also chapters on African-American and Japanese-American women, chapters on spies, politicians, journalists and other professional women, the 'wrong kind' of women (prostitutes, unwed mother, lesbians), the Right Wing and the Anti-Semitic Mothers' Group. Met index, lit. opg. XIV, 447 p., [16] p. pl. : ill. ; 24 cm.