women

Presents an illustrated history of the women who played crucial roles at home and overseas during WWII, including those in the Women's Army Corps "Rosie the Riveters," nurses, and USO volunteers, with information about peoples' attitudes toward the new roles they played and a glossary.

Presents information on the role of American women in World War II, including descriptions of the history of women in U.S. military operations, and how they served back home in the Women's Auxilary Corps. Includes glossary.

Testimony from twenty-nine German women survivors of the Third Reich which provides a portrait of life on the German home front and of the society that spawned Hitler and the Holocaust. The oral histories of these women provide a perspective of Germany during the pre-World War II era and after.

Provides a much-needed introduction to the history of women in the Reformation and English Civil Wars period (16th and 17th centuries) and is arranged around the themes of the family, work, religion, crime and education.

Profiles the women who served in various capacities during the Vietnam War including medical personnel and welfare workers, war correspondents, and North Vietnamese combatants.

Discusses how female soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines have fought on the front lines in Iraq despite the military's official stance on women in combat, covering the physical wounds and pervasive psychological toll of having been in battle while readjusting to civilian life.

Examines the lives of American women during World War II at home and on the fighting front, drawing from personal interviews, wartime letters and diaries, and other sources to discuss their experiences as factory workers, wives and mothers, nurses, spies, pilots, movie stars, prostitutes, and in other occupations.

A seventeen-year-old, pure Navaho Indian girl, rejected and isolated from white society faces a vegetable future in a mental institution until a young doctor takes an interest in her.

"A project of the National Council for Research on Women and the Business and Professional Women's Foundation.".