Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book
Author Escobedo, Elizabeth Rachel, author.

Title From coveralls to zoot suits : the lives of Mexican American women on the World War II home front / Elizabeth R. Escobedo
Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2013]

Copies

Description 1 online resource (229 pages) : illustrations
Contents The Pachuca panic -- Americanos todos : Mexican Women and the wartime state and media -- Reenvisioning Rosie : Mexican Women and wartime defense work -- Respectable rebellions : Mexican women and the world of wartime leisure -- Rights and postwar life
Summary "During World War II, unprecedented employment avenues opened up for women and minorities in U.S. defense industries at the same time that massive population shifts and the war challenged Americans to rethink notions of race. At this extraordinary historical moment, Mexican American women found new means to exercise control over their lives in the home, workplace, and nation. In From Coveralls to Zoot Suits, Elizabeth R. Escobedo explores how, as war workers and volunteers, dance hostesses and zoot suiters, respectable young ladies and rebellious daughters, these young women used wartime conditions to serve the United States in its time of need and to pursue their own desires. But even after the war, as Escobedo shows, Mexican American women had to continue challenging workplace inequities and confronting family and communal resistance to their broadening public presence. Highlighting seldom heard voices of the 'Greatest Generation,' Escobedo examines these contradictions within Mexican families and their communities, exploring the impact of youth culture, outside employment, and family relations on the lives of women whose home-front experiences and everyday life choices would fundamentally alter the history of a generation."-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes International Latino Book Award, 2015 - Best History Book - English
Print version record
Subject Mexican American women -- California -- Los Angeles -- Social conditions -- 20th century
Mexican American women -- Employment -- California -- Los Angeles -- History
World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- California -- Los Angeles
World War, 1939-1945 -- War work -- California -- Los Angeles
World War, 1939-1945 -- Social aspects -- California -- Los Angeles
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Black Studies (Global)
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- Hispanic American Studies.
Mexican American women -- Employment
Mexican American women -- Social conditions
Social aspects
War work
Women
California -- Los Angeles
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781469602066
1469602067
9781469608242
1469608243