Mobilizing Minerva American Women in the First World War

Name: Mobilizing Minerva American Women in the First World War
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ISBN: 9780252074967

ISBN-10: 0252074963

ISBN-13: 9780252074967

Edition: 2007

Authors: Kimberly Jensen

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Mobilizing Minerva: American Women in the First World War analyzes the strategies of female physicians, nurses, and women-at-arms who linked military service with the opportunity to achieve professional and civic goals.

Book details

List price: $33.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Publication date: 2/8/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 264
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 0.946

Kimberly Jensen is professor of history and gender studies at Western Oregon University.



Preface: "Mobilizing Woman Power" in the First World War


Acknowledgments


Prelude: The Washington, D.C., Suffrage Parade of 1913



Negotiating Gender and Citizenship: Context for the First World War



Gender and Violence: Context and Experience in the Era of the World War



"Whether We Vote or Not-We Are Going to Shoot": Women and Armed Defense on the Home Front



"The Fighting, Biting, and Scratching Kind": Good Girls, Bad Girls, and Women's Soldiering



Uncle Sam's Loyal Nieces: Women Physicians, Citizenship, and Wartime Military Service



Helping Women Who Pay the "Rapacious Price" of War: Women's Medical Units in France



A Base Hospital Is Not a Coney Island Dance Hall: Nurses, Citizenship, Hostile Work Environment, and Military Rank



"Danger Ahead for the Country": Civic Roles and Safety for the Consumer-Civilian in Postwar America


Conclusion


Notes


Bibliography


Index