Journal of Women's History articles from June 2001

Journal of Women's History archives from June 2001

EDITOR'S NOTE.
June 22, 2001... For the first time in several years, because of my editing and administrative roles, I taught a graduate readings course in women's history this spring. Rereading the articles on conceptual frameworks in women's history that I routinely assign...

"AS BADLY OFF AS THE FILIPINOS": U.S. Women's Suffragists and the Imperial Issue at the Turn of the Twentieth Century.
June 22, 2001... In November 1903, when the genteel members of the New England Anti-Imperialist League gathered in Boston for their annual meeting, Mary A. Livermore rose to speak. Her anti-imperialist associates knew Livermore as a seasoned reformer: she was...

BROKEN REEDS AND COMPETENT FARMERS: Slaveholding Widows in the Southeastern United States, 1783-1861.
June 22, 2001... In the early nineteenth-century American Southeast, the deaths of slaveholding men often left widows in charge of suddenly reconfigured households, which were home to the region's most important relationships of power and authority. Fellow...

FROM MERE SURVIVAL TO NEAR SUCCESS: Women's Economic Strategies in Early Modern Portugal.
June 22, 2001... As was the case in most of Western Europe, women in early modern Portugal rarely obtained positions of public authority. Portuguese women did not, for instance, hold office in town or city councils, the government bodies whose decisions most...

MATERNAL STRATEGIES: Irish Women's Headship of Families in Gilded Age Chicago.
June 22, 2001... Irish immigrant families in nineteenth-century America were especially likely to be headed by women. Historians report that from over 10 percent to well over 20 percent of Irish families were female-headed.(1) Numerous studies have cast these...

CONTRASTING FEMALE IDENTITIES: Women in Coal Mining Communities in Northumberland, England, 1900-1939.
June 22, 2001... Coal miners have long fascinated scholars from a variety of disciplines, as they have the public at large, because they engender dramatic and extreme images of danger and unremitting hard labor, unparalleled industrial solidarity and militancy,...

Gender Economics in Action: Rural Women's Economic Citizenship in Finland during the Twentieth Century.
June 22, 2001... During the past twenty years, research on rural women's history has provided a great deal of new knowledge on economic and social developments in western European and North American agriculture during the late nineteenth and early twentieth...

THE FUTURE OF WOMEN'S HISTORY.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2001... The Journal of Women's History is proud to cosponsor the junior division women's history prize for the National History Day competition. Thousands of students in grades six through twelve presented their projects in 2000, based on the theme...

WOMEN WHO ANSWERED THE CALL: World War II as a Turning Point for Women in the Workforce.
June 22, 2001... For hundreds of years, American women have not been given credit for their wartime contributions. During the American Revolution, Mary Ludwig Hayes, "Molly Pitcher," carried water to the men on the front lines and, when her husband was wounded,...

LYNETTE YORGEY'S SCHOOL WITHOUT WALLS.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2001... A regular participant in the National History Day competition, Lynette Yorgey has presented performance pieces over the past five years. In her sophomore year of high school, she created a performance based on the life of Austrian and Jewish...

Tupperware: The Promise of Plastic in 1950s America.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Alison J. Clarke. Tupperware: The Promise of Plastic in 1950s America. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1999. x + 241 pp.; ill.; no bibliography. ISBN 1-56098-827-4 (cl). Since Western nations began building consumer...

Ladies of Labor, Girls of Adventure: Working Women, Popular Culture, and Labor Politics at the Turn of the Twentieth Century.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Nan Enstad. Ladies of Labor, Girls of Adventure: Working Women, Popular Culture, and Labor Politics at the Turn of the Twentieth Century. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. xii+266 pp.; ill.; no bibliography. ISBN 0-231-11102-9 (cl);...

Selling Suffrage: Consumer Culture and Votes for Women.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Margaret Finnegan. Selling Suffrage: Consumer Culture and Votes for Women. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. x + 222 pp.; ill.; no bibliography. ISBN 0-231-10738-2 (cl); 0-231-10739-0 (pb). Since Western nations began building...

Shopping for Pleasure: Women in the Making of London's West End.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Erika Diane Rappaport, Shopping for Pleasure: Women in the Making of London's West End. Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press, 2000. xiii + 323 pp.; ill.; maps. ISBN 0-691-04477-5 (cl). Since Western nations began building consumer...

Contentious Traditions: The Debate on Sati in Colonial India.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Lati Mani, Contentious Traditions: The Debate on Sati in Colonial India. California: University of California Press, 1998. xiv + 246 pp.; ill.; glossary. ISBN 0-520-21406-4 (cl); 0-520-21407-2 (pb). Eagerly awaited since the publication of...

The Story of the Daughters of Quchan: Gender and National Memory in Iranian History.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Afsaneh Najmabadi. The Story of the Daughters of Quchan: Gender and National Memory in Iranian History. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1998. xiv + 241 pp.; ill.; maps; glossary. ISBN 0-8156-2790-4 (cl); 0-8156-2791-2 (pb). ...

Imagining Home: Gender, `Race,' and National Identity, 1945-1964.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Wendy Webster. Imagining Home: Gender, `Race,' and National Identity, 1945-1964. London: University College, London Press, 1998. xxiv + 240 pp. ISBN 1-85728-350-3 (cl); 1-85728-351-1 (pb). Eagerly awaited since the publication of her widely...

Each Mind a Kingdom: American Women, Sexual Purity, and the New Thought Movement, 1875-1920.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Beryl Satter. Each Mind a Kingdom: American Women, Sexual Purity, and the New Thought Movement, 1875-1920. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. xii + 382 pp.; ill.; charts. ISBN 0-520-21765-9 (cl). In an era when the cloning of...

Mesmerized: Powers of Mind in Victorian Britain.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Alison Winter. Mesmerized: Powers of Mind in Victorian Britain. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. xiv + 464 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-226-90219-6 (cl). In an era when the cloning of animals has become possible and Human Genome Project...

Bolshevik Women.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Barbara Evans Clements. Bolshevik Women. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. xiv + 338 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-521-59920-2 (pb). Although these four books range over four continents and more than one hundred years, they address similar...

For Women and the Nation: Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti of Nigeria.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Cheryl Johnson-Odim and Nina Mba. For Women and the Nation: Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti of Nigeria. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997. xvi + 198 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-252-02313-7 (cl); 0-252-06613-8 (pb). Although these four books range over...

Crazy for Democracy: Women in Grassroots Movements.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Temma Kaplan. Crazy for Democracy: Women in Grassroots Movements. New York: Routledge, 1997. x + 243 pp. ISBN 0-415-91662-3 (cl); 0-415-91663-1 (pb). Although these four books range over four continents and more than one hundred years,...

Creating Socialist Women in Japan: Gender, Labour, and Activism, 1900-1937.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Vera Mackie. Creating Socialist Women in Japan: Gender, Labour, and Activism, 1900-1937. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. ix + 252 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-521-55137-4 (cl). Although these four books range over four continents and more...

Women against women: On the troubled sisterhood.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Christina Florin, Lena Sommestad, and Ulla Wikander, eds. Kvinnor mot kvinnor: Om systerskapets svarigheter. (Women against women: On the troubled sisterhood). Stockholm: Norstedts, 1999. 249 pp.; ill. ISBN 91-1-300723-8 (cl). Had this...

Uncertain Travelers: Conversations with Jewish Women Immigrants to America.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Marjorie Agosin. Uncertain Travelers: Conversations with Jewish Women Immigrants to America. Hanover: Brandeis University Press, 2000. vii + 214 pp.; ill.; no bibliography. ISBN 0-87451-945-4 (cl). Marjorie Agosin, a Chilean immigrant and...

Creating the New Soviet Woman: Women's Magazines as Engineers of Female Identity, 1922-1953.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Lynne Atwood. Creating the New Soviet Woman: Women's Magazines as Engineers of Female Identity, 1922-1953. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. v + 213 pp. ISBN 0-312-22544-X (cl). Using the magazines Rabotnitsa, geared at female workers,...

"Stalwart Women": A Historical Analysis of Deans of Women in the South.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Carolyn Terry Bashaw. "Stalwart Women": A Historical Analysis of Deans of Women in the South. New York: Teachers College Press, 1999. xv + 163 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-8077-6300-4 (cl); 0-8077-6299-7 (pb). Bashaw contributes a new chapter to...

Antigone's Claim: Kinship Between Life and Death.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Judith Butler. Antigone's Claim: Kinship Between Life and Death. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000. 103 pp. ISBN 0-231-11894-5 (cl). Judith Butler explores the depth and contemporary relevance of the mythical figure of Antigone....

Women and Men in Renaissance Venice: Twelve Essays on Patrician Society.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Stanley Chojnacki. Women and Men in Renaissance Venice: Twelve Essays on Patrician Society. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. x + 370 pp.; tables. ISBN 0-8018-6269-8 (cl); 0-8018-6395-3 (pb). This is a compilation of...

Three Women in Dark Times: Edith Stein, Hannah Arendt, Simone Weil; or, Amor Fati, amor mundi.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Sylvie Courtine-Denamy. Three Women in Dark Times: Edith Stein, Hannah Arendt, Simone Weil; or, Amor Fati, amor mundi. G.M. Goshgarian, trans. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2000. xi+ 272 pp. ISBN 0-8014-3572-2 (cl). In this...

Women's Worlds in Seventeenth-Century England: A Sourcebook.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Patricia Crawford and Laura Gowing, eds. Women's Worlds in Seventeenth-Century England: A Sourcebook. London: Routledge, 2000. xviii + 314 pp.; ill.; glossary. ISBN 0-415-15638-6 (pb). Women's Worlds in Seventeenth-Century England is a...

Living up to the Ads: Gender Fictions of the 1920s.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Simone Weil Davis. Living up to the Ads: Gender Fictions of the 1920s. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2000. xi+248 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-8223-2446-6 (pb). The Jazz Age coincided with the dawn of the Age of Advertising and Simone Weil...

Gender Camouflage: Women and the U. S. Military.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Francine D'Amico and Laurie Weinstein, eds. Gender Camouflage: Women and the U. S. Military. New York: New York University Press, 1999. ix + 262 pp.; ill.; tables; figures; appendix. ISBN 0-8147-1906-6 (cl); ISBN 0-8147-1907-4 (pb). The...

Whores of Babylon: Catholicism, Gender, and Seventeenth-Century Print Culture.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Frances E. Dolan. Whores of Babylon: Catholicism, Gender, and Seventeenth-Century Print Culture. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1999. xii + 231 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-8014-3629-X (cl). Dolan's study explores print debates concerning the...

Anne Frank: Reflections on Her Life and Legacy.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Hyman Aaron Enzer and Sandra Solotaroff-Enzer, eds. Anne Frank: Reflections on Her Life and Legacy. Foreword by Bernd Elias. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000. xxvii+285 pp. ISBN 0-252-06823-8 (pb). The diary of Anne Frank, first...

Women in Scotland: c. 1100-c.1750.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Elizabeth Ewan and Maureen M. Meikle, eds. Women in Scotland: c. 1100c. 1750. East Linton, Scotland: Tuckwell Press, 1999. xxx + 272 pp.; ill. ISBN 1-86232-0946-2 (pb). This volume grew out of the same-titled conference sponsored by the...

The Royalty of Negro Vaudeville: The Whitman Sisters and the Negotiation of Race, Gender, and Class in African American Theater, 1900-1940.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Nadine George-Graves. The Royalty of Negro Vaudeville: The Whitman Sisters and the Negotiation of Race, Gender, and Class in African American Theater, 1900-1940. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000. xvii+ 183 pp.; bibliography; appendices. ISBN...

The Pure Food, Drink, and Drug Crusaders, 1879-1914.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Lorine Swainston Goodwin. The Pure Food, Drink, and Drug Crusaders, 1879-1914. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, 1999. vii + 352 pp. ISBN 0-7864-0618-6 (cl). Goodwin argues that previous studies of the progressive era that credit...

Mothers, Sisters, Resisters: Oral Histories of Women Who Survived the Holocaust.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Brana Gurewitsch, ed. Mothers, Sisters, Resisters: Oral Histories of Women Who Survived the Holocaust. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1998. xxi + 396 pp.; ill.; glossary. ISBN 0-8173-0931-4 (cl); 0-8173-0952-7 (pb). Twenty-five...

Race Woman: The Lives of Shirley Graham DuBois.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Gerald Horne. Race Woman: The Lives of Shirley Graham DuBois. New York: New York University Press, 2000. viii+345 pp. ISBN 0-8147-8120-9 (pb). This work takes a glimpse into the life of activist, biographer, teacher, novelist, playwright,...

The Making of the Magdalen: Preaching and Popular Devotion in the Later Middle Ages.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Katherine Ludwig Jansen. The Making of the Magdalen: Preaching and Popular Devotion in the Later Middle Ages. Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press, 2000. xiii + 389 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-691-05850-4 (cl). Katherine Jansen traces the...

The South in Black and White: Race, Sex, and Literature in the 1940s.(Review)
June 22, 2001... McKay Jenkins. The South in Black and White: Race, Sex, and Literature in the 1940s. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. ix + 215 pp. ISBN 0-8078-4777-1 (pb). McKay Jenkins uses four white Southern writers to examine...

Nadia Captive of Hope: Memoir of an Arab Woman.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Fay Afaf Kanafani. Nadia Captive of Hope: Memoir of an Arab Woman. Lisa Suhair Majaj's, editor. Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 1999. xxxii + 338 pp. ISBN 0-7656-0311-X (cl); ISBN 0-7656-0312-8 (pb). The autobiography of Fay Afaf Kanafani...

My Secret is Mine: Studies on Religion and Eros in the German Middle Ages.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Hildegard Elizabeth Keller. My Secret is Mine: Studies on Religion and Eros in the German Middle Ages. Bondgenotenlaan, Germany: Peeters, 2000. 297 pp.; ill.; bibliography. ISBN 90-429-0871-8 (pb). Keller examines the metaphor of the church...

Women in the United States, 1830-1945.(Review)
June 22, 2001... S.J. Kleinberg. Women in the United States, 1830-1945. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1999. xii+368 pp. ISBN 0-8135-2729-5 (pb). Despite enormous social, political, and economic changes in the United States from the era of...

Ventures Into Childland: Victorians, Fairy Tales, and Femininity.(Review)
June 22, 2001... U.C. Knoepflmacher. Ventures Into Childland: Victorians, Fairy Tales, and Femininity. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. xxi + 444 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-226-44815-0 (cl). In Ventures Into Childland, U.C. Knoepflmacher presents a...

Comrades and Partners: The Shared Lives of Grace Hutchins and Anna Rochester.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Janet Lee. Comrades and Partners: The Shared Lives of Grace Hutchins and Anna Rochester. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2000. vii + 291 pp.; ill.; no bibliography. ISBN 0-8476-9620-0 (cl). Using an unconventional method that...

American Women's History: A Student Companion.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Glenna Matthews. American Women's History: A Student Companion. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. 368 pp.; ill.; appendices. ISBN 019-511317-9 (cl). Intended for young readers but useful for college students and teachers alike, this...

A Social History of Women & Gender in the Modern Middle East.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Margaret L. Meriwether and Judith E. Tucker, eds. A Social History of Women & Gender in the Modern Middle East. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1999. ix + 220 pp. ISBN 0-8133-2101-8 (pb). Theoretically informed examinations of published...

Spoken Like a Woman: Speech and Gender in Athenian Drama.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Laura McClure. Spoken Like a Woman: Speech and Gender in Athenian Drama. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1999. xi + 293 pp. ISBN 0691-01730-1(cl). Women's voices, so seldom heard in Greek history, come through strongly in...

Mary McLeod Bethune: Building A Better World.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Audrey Thomas McCluskey and Elaine M. Smith, eds. Mary McLeod Bethune: Building A Better World. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999. xvi + 317 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-253-33626-0 (cl). This collection of essays and seventy-five documents...

A Gathering of Rivers: Indians, Metis, and Mining in the Western Great Lakes, 1737-1832.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Lucy Eldersveld Murphy. A Gathering of Rivers: Indians, Metis, and Mining in the Western Great Lakes, 173 7-1832. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000. xx + 233 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-8032-3210-1 (cl). Lucy Eldersveld Murphy presents a...

Members of the Regiment: Army Officers' Wives on the Western Frontier, 1865-1890.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Michele J. Nacy. Members of the Regiment: Army Officers' Wives on the Western Frontier, 1865-1890. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2000. ix+128 pp.; appendices. ISBN 0-313-30998-1 (cl). In this book, Nacy restores historical agency to her...

Donors, Devotees, and Daughters of God: Temple Women in Medieval Tamilnadu.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Leslie C. Orr. Donors, Devotees, and Daughters of God: Temple Women in Medieval Tamilnadu. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. xii + 305 pp., appendices; tables. ISBN 0-19-509962-1 (cl). This volume examines the milieu of temple women...

The Book of Deeds of Arms and of Chivalry.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Christine de Pizan. The Book of Deeds of Arms and of Chivalry. Charity Cannon Willard, editor. Trans. Sumner Willard. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999. 223 pp. ISBN 0-271-01880-1 (cl); 0-271-01881-X (pb). This...

The Midwives Book: Or the Whole Art of Midwifery Discovered.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Jane Sharp. The Midwives Book: Or the Whole Art of Midwifery Discovered. Elaine Hobby, editor. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. xliii + 323 pp.; ill.; glossary. ISBN 0-19-508653-8 (pb). Originally published in 1671, The Midwives Book...

The Interrogation of Joan of Arc.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Karen Sullivan. The Interrogation of Joan of Arc. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999. xxv + 204 pp. ISBN 0-8166-3267-7 (cl); 0-8166-3268-5 (pb). This work of literary scholarship demonstrates that the minutes of Joan of Arc's...

Five Euphemias: Women in Medieval Scotland 1200-1420.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Elizabeth Sutherland. Five Euphemias: Women in Medieval Scotland 1200-1420. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999.282 pp.; ill.; appendices. ISBN: 0-312-22284-X (cl). In Five Euphemias, two hundred years of Scottish history unfold through the...

Medieval Gentlewoman: Life in a Gentry Household in the Later Middle Ages.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Ffiona Swabey. Medieval Gentlewoman: Life in a Gentry Household in the Later Middle Ages. New York: Routledge, 1999. xii + 210 pp.; ill.; appendices. ISBN 0-415-92511-8 (cl). Ffiona Swabey creates a stunning book using the life of Alice de...

Women's Studies Encyclopedia.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Helen Tierney, ed. Women's Studies Encyclopedia. Revised and expanded edition, originally published in 1989. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., 1999. CD-ROM version. ISBN 0-313-31074-2. This text-only reference work on...

Swing Shift: "All-Girl" Bands of the 1940s.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Sherrie Tucker. Swing Shift: "All-Girl" Bands of the 1940s. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2000. ix+413 pp. ISBN 0-8223-2485-7 (cl). Tucker makes it clear that the absence of women in conventional music history is in no way a result...

The Northeastern Dictionary of Women's Biography, 3rd ed.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Jennifer S. Uglow, ed. The Northeastern Dictionary of Women's Biography, 3rd ed. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1999. xvii + 622 pp. ISBN 1-55553-421-X (cl). This volume is a recently revised and updated dictionary of women's...

For Her Good Estate: The Life of Elizabeth De Burgh.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Frances A. Underhill. For Her Good Estate: The Life of Elizabeth De Burgh. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. ix+221 pp. ISBN 0-312-21355-7 (cl). Frances Underhill details the life of a fourteenth-century English noblewoman Elizabeth De...

Buildings for Bluestockings: The Architecture and Social History of Women's Colleges in Late Victorian, England.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Margaret Birney Vickery. Buildings for Bluestockings: The Architecture and Social History of Women's Colleges in Late Victorian, England. Newark, N.J.: University of Delaware Press, 1999. xiii + 200 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-87413-697-0 (cl). ...

Memory and Gender in Medieval Europe, 900-1200.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Elisabeth von Houts. Memory and Gender in Medieval Europe, 900-1200. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999. xii + 196 pp.; appendices. ISBN 0-8020-4698-3 (cl); 0-8020-8277-7 (pb). This book explores how medieval people remembered their...

Charlotte Hawkins Brown & Palmer Memorial Institute: What One Young African-American Woman Could Do.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Charles W. Wadelington. Charlotte Hawkins Brown & Palmer Memorial Institute: What One Young African-American Woman Could Do. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. xvi+303 pp.; ill; appendices. ISBN 0-8078-4794-1 (pb). An...

All We Knew Was to Farm: Rural Women in the Upcountry South, 1919-1941.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Melissa Walker. All We Knew Was to Farm: Rural Women in the Upcountry South, 1919-1941 Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. xviii + 342 pp.; tables; figures. ISBN 0-8018-6318-X (cl). Melissa Walker's book deals with...

Not For Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns, eds. Not For Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999. xi + 240 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-375-40560-7 (cl). The companion volume to the PBS documentary...

In Uncle Sam's Service: Women Workers with the American Expeditionary Force, 1917-1919.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Susan Zeiger. In Uncle Sam's Service: Women Workers with the American Expeditionary Force, 1917-1919. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1999. x + 211 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-8014-3166-2 (cl). During World War I, over sixteen thousand women...