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Author Weiss, Elaine F., 1952-

Title Fruits of victory : the Woman's Land Army of America in the Great War / Elaine F. Weiss
Edition 1st ed
Published Washington, D.C. : Potomac Books, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 315 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Contents Liberty Day -- The girl with a hoe behind the man with a gun. The right to serve : a British Land Army ; Female preparedness ; An agricultural army ; Suffrage agriculture ; Soil sisters ; A feminine invasion of the land : the Bedford Camp ; Farmerettes abd Hoover Helpers : Fall 1917 ; Women on the land ; A hysterical appeal ; A fine propaganda : the Fair Farmerette and her publicity machine ; Enlist now! -- The Patriot Farmerette. In bifurcated garb of toil : California ; Hortense Powdermaker in Maryland ; Cultivating the soothing weed : Connecticut ; Libertyville : Illinois ; Girls who thought potatoes grew on trees : New England ; The Farmerette in Wanamaker's window : selling the Land Army in New Jersey ; Georgia cotton ; Harsh terrain ; Miss Diehl and the Wellesley Experiment Station ; Tiller, planter, gleaner : New York ; Marriage of convenience ; A hungry world ;Carry on ; Farmerette redux : 1919 and beyond
Summary The women who kept the farms going while the soldiers were Over There
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-306) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Women's Land Army of America -- History
Women's Land Army of America
World War, 1914-1918 -- Women -- United States
World War, 1914-1918 -- War work -- United States
World War, 1914-1918 -- Participation, Female
World War, 1914-1918 -- Food supply -- United States
World War, 1914-1918 -- Economic aspects -- United States
Women farmers -- United States -- History -- 20th century
HISTORY -- Military -- World War I.
Economics
Food supply
Military participation -- Female
War work
Women
Women farmers
Weltkrieg 1914-1918
Heimatfront
Landwirtschaftlicher Betrieb
Landarbeiterin
United States
USA
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781612343990
1612343996