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Book SynopsisFeatures girls, young women, and adult women involved in various ways in battles, wars, and war-time activities. This work examines their roles as nurses, doctors, spies, soldiers, correspondents, photographers, as well as their roles on the home front.
Trade ReviewThis is a great addition for libraries.... * School Library Journal, November 2007 *
Highly useful and readable....This guide to resources truly fills a niche previously overlooked. The author's engagingly written annotations and her thorough scholarship make it a must-have for school and public libraries. * VOYA, Vol. 30, No. 5, December 2007 *
Crew's thorough handbook to print and electronic works for young readers offers glimpses of competent women assuming business, industrial, and homefront opportunities usually denied them. * American Reference Books Annual, March 2008 *
With this reference, Crew provides the perfect tool for informing children and young adults about amazing women within the overwhelmingly male-dominated context of war and wartime. This guide to resources is a must-have for educators and librarians. * Feminist Collections: A Quarterly Of Women's Studies Resources, March 2008 *
Crew (formerly school library media specialization, Kean U.) presents an annotated bibliography on sources for youth relating to girls' and women's involvement in war, in this volume meant for teachers and school library media specialists. It covers print, nonprint, and electronic resources appropriate for grades K-12, including picture books, fiction and nonfiction, autobiographies, biographies, collective biographies, reference materials, and journal and magazine articles from the earliest historical records to the present. The scope is international, although the US is emphasized. Adult books that can be read by junior and senior high school students are included, and some that are out of print are listed. A section on women and peace organizations is incorporated, as well as professional resources for educators and primary documents available online. Classroom activities are discussed in an appendix. Author, title, subject, geographical, and grade-level indexes are provided. * Reference and Research Book News, August 2007 *
This remarkable thorough overview of resources proceeds chronologically....This title can power many different directions for exploration, but it will be a worthwhile assistant to anyone looking to focus on war or women's studies. * The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, September 2008 *
Table of ContentsPart 1 Acknowledgments Part 2 Introduction Part 3 1 Early Times to the 18th Century Part 4 2 The 19th Century Part 5 3 The 20th and 21st Centuries Part 6 4 General References Resources Part 7 5 Making Connectiones Part 8 6 Professional Resources for Educators Part 9 7 Primary Resources Part 10 Appendix A: International Directory of Memorials, Monuments, and Museums Part 11 Appendix B: Classroom Activities, Lesson Plans, and Book Talks Part 12 Appendix C: Building a Core Collection Part 13 Author Index Part 14 Title Index Part 15 Subject Index Part 16 Geographical Index Part 17 Grade-Level Index Part 18 About the Author
