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Author Weaks-Baxter, Mary

Title We are a college at war : women working for victory in World War II / Mary Weaks-Baxter, Christine Bruun, and Catherine Forslund
Published Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 237 pages) : illustrations
Contents Introduction: The Jane Addams legacy -- War looms -- A crisis of opportunity -- Rescue stories -- Home-front activism -- Women wanted -- Romances of war -- Twentieth-century feminism and new roles for women
Summary We Are a College at War weaves together the World War II experiences of students and faculty at Rockford College in Rockford, Illinois, to provide readers with a better understanding of the role American women and college students played during this defining period in U.S. history. Drawing on the Rockford community's letters, speeches, and campus newspaper archives, the authors demonstrate how women claimed the right to be everywhere-in factories and other traditionally male workplaces, and even on the front lines-and link their efforts to the rise of feminism and the fight fo
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Cheek, Mary Ashby
Addams, Jane, 1860-1935.
SUBJECT Addams, Jane, 1860-1935 fast
Cheek, Mary Ashby fast
Cheek, Mary Ashby. fast/nic/nac
Subject Rockford College -- History -- 20th century
SUBJECT Rockford College fast
Subject World War, 1939-1945 -- War work -- Schools.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- Illinois
Women college students -- Illinois -- History -- 20th century
HISTORY -- Military -- World War II.
War work
Schools
Women
Women college students
Illinois
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
Author Bruun, Christine, 1943-
Forslund, Catherine, 1955-
LC no. 2009049525
ISBN 9780809385911
0809385910
128069761X
9781280697616
9786613674579
6613674575