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During World War I, the first U.S. war in which women were mobilized by the armed services on a mass scale, more than sixteen thousand female personnel served overseas with the American Expeditionary Force. Elite society women—the so-called heiress corps—have dominated the popular perception of women''s service ever since. But Susan Zeiger shows that the majority of these female nurses, clerical workers, telephone operators, and canteen workers were wage-earners whose motives for enlistment ranged from patriotism to economic self-interest, from a sense of adventure to a desire to challenge gender boundaries.
In exploring women''s experience of war, Zeiger draws from a wealth of diaries, letters, questionnaires, oral histories, and memoirs, as well as army records. She analyzes the ways women''s wartime service brought to light contradictions in prevailing gender relations at the height of the campaign for women''s suffrage, and she places the stories of servicewomen

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In Uncle Sams Service

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      Publisher University of Pennsylvania Press
      Published 18 May 2004
      ISBN-13 9780812218756
      978-0812218756
      ISBN-10 0812218752
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      Book Synopsis

      During World War I, the first U.S. war in which women were mobilized by the armed services on a mass scale, more than sixteen thousand female personnel served overseas with the American Expeditionary Force. Elite society women—the so-called heiress corps—have dominated the popular perception of women''s service ever since. But Susan Zeiger shows that the majority of these female nurses, clerical workers, telephone operators, and canteen workers were wage-earners whose motives for enlistment ranged from patriotism to economic self-interest, from a sense of adventure to a desire to challenge gender boundaries.
      In exploring women''s experience of war, Zeiger draws from a wealth of diaries, letters, questionnaires, oral histories, and memoirs, as well as army records. She analyzes the ways women''s wartime service brought to light contradictions in prevailing gender relations at the height of the campaign for women''s suffrage, and she places the stories of servicewomen

      Trade Review
      "Zeiger's exemplary book delivers more than its title promises." * Choice *

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