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Don't Call Us Girls examines the importance of women's participation in the Civil RightsMovement in the United States, and the international anti-war movement. This collective voice for peace, and an end to nuclear proliferation, reached back to before the Second World War and then firmly embedded itself during the war years when women assumed such important roles in the workplace that Franklin D. Roosevelt called them the Arsenal of Democracy'.When the men returned from war, women were encouraged by forces as powerful as government agencies and eminent psychiatrists to return to their place' at home. And return home they did, only to realize that they could use the skills they practiced as housewives to begin organizing themselves into groups that would start a wave of protest action that swept through the late 1950s, gathering up the Civil Rights Movement as it hurtled ever forward through the next two decades.In the 1960s and 1970s, no institution or convention was sacredmany aspect

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      Publisher: Pen & Sword Books Ltd
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 1/11/2024 12:11:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9781399066068, 978-1399066068
      ISBN10: 1399066064
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      Gender studies: women and girls

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      Book Synopsis
      Don't Call Us Girls examines the importance of women's participation in the Civil RightsMovement in the United States, and the international anti-war movement. This collective voice for peace, and an end to nuclear proliferation, reached back to before the Second World War and then firmly embedded itself during the war years when women assumed such important roles in the workplace that Franklin D. Roosevelt called them the Arsenal of Democracy'.When the men returned from war, women were encouraged by forces as powerful as government agencies and eminent psychiatrists to return to their place' at home. And return home they did, only to realize that they could use the skills they practiced as housewives to begin organizing themselves into groups that would start a wave of protest action that swept through the late 1950s, gathering up the Civil Rights Movement as it hurtled ever forward through the next two decades.In the 1960s and 1970s, no institution or convention was sacredmany aspect

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