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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Print version record |
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Cheek, Mary Ashby
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Addams, Jane, 1860-1935.
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Addams, Jane, 1860-1935 fast |
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Cheek, Mary Ashby fast |
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Cheek, Mary Ashby. fast/nic/nac |
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Rockford College -- History -- 20th century
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Rockford College fast |
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World War, 1939-1945 -- War work -- Schools.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- Illinois
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Women college students -- Illinois -- History -- 20th century
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HISTORY -- Military -- World War II.
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War work
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Schools
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Women
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Women college students
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Illinois
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Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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Electronic book
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Author |
Bruun, Christine, 1943-
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Forslund, Catherine, 1955-
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LC no. |
2009049525 |
ISBN |
9780809385911 |
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0809385910 |
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128069761X |
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9781280697616 |
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9786613674579 |
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6613674575 |
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