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Book SynopsisPart of a fully indexed 20-volume collection which gathers together significant research contributions on the social, religious and political history of women in the United States, from colonial times to the 1990s.
Table of ContentsFrontmatter -- Contents -- Series Preface -- Introduction -- WOMEN IN T H E AMERICAN REVOLUTION -- Eighteenth-Century American Women in Peace and War: The Case of the Loyalists -- "As Thy Days, So Shall Thy Strength Be": North Carolina Planter Women in War and Peace -- Emily Lyles Harris: A Piedmont Farmer During the Civil War -- THE WAR WITHIN A WAR: Women Nurses in the Union Army -- THE ROMANCE AND REALITY OF DEFEAT: SOUTHERN WOMEN IN 1865 -- Black Women and the Great War: Mobilization and Reform in the South -- Southern Women in the War: The North Carolina Woman's Committee, 1917-1919 -- "THE MOTHERS OF THE RACE" IN WORLD WAR I: THE NATIONAL WAR LABOR BOARD AND WOMEN IN INDUSTRY -- NOTES AND DOCUMENTS -- Women Workers and World War I: The American Railroad Industry, A Case Study -- Searching for the Antecedents of Affirmative Action: The National War Labor Board and the Cleveland Women Conductors in World War I -- "Peace is a woman9s job.. " Jeannette Rankin and American Foreign Policy: The Origins of Her Pacifism -- "Peace is a woman's job.. Jeannette Rankin and American Foreign Policy: Her Lifework as a Pacifist -- The Woman's Peace Party and The Moral Basis for Women's Pacifism -- The "Womanpower" Campaign: Advertising and Recruitment Propaganda during World War II -- The Working-Class Woman and Recruitment Propaganda during World War II: Class Differences in the Portrayal of War Work -- WOMEN WORKERS IN WORLD WAR II: MICHIGAN AS A TEST CASE -- Last Hired, First Fired: Black Women Workers during World War II -- WORKING WOMEN AND WORLD WAR II -- Riveters, Volunteers and WACS: Women in Mobile During World War II -- Japanese American Women During World War II -- Copyright Information -- Index
