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Serving Our Country - Japanese American Women in the Military During World War II (Paperback, New)
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Serving Our Country - Japanese American Women in the Military During World War II (Paperback, New)
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"Brenda Moore gives us such an eye-opening look at the racialized
genderings of World War II--the war we think we know so much about
and yet, in fact, are just beginning to really grasp in all its
complexity. Furthermore, using in-depth narratives and exploring
Japanese American women's prewar, wartime, and postwar experiences,
Moore reminds us that any war is a heady mix of state manipulation,
popular anxieties, and individual women's own subtle forms of
agency. This a book for right now." --Cynthia Enloe, author of
Maneuvers: The International Politics of Militarizing Women's Lives
Following the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor and America's declaration
of war on Japan, the U.S. War Department allowed up to five hundred
second-generation, or "Nisei," Japanese American women to join the
Women's Army Corps and, in smaller numbers, the Army Medical Corps.
Through in-depth interviews with surviving Nisei women who
enlisted, Brenda L. Moore provides fascinating firsthand accounts
of their service. Interested primarily in shedding light on the
service of Nisei women during the war, the author argues for the
relevance of these experiences to larger questions of American race
relations and views on gender and their intersections, particularly
in the country's highly charged wartime atmosphere. Uncovering a
page in American history that has been obscured, Moore adds nuance
to our understanding of the situation of Japanese Americans during
the war. Brenda L. Moore is an associate professor of sociology at
the State University of New York at Buffalo, and is the author of
To Serve My Country, To Serve My Race: The Story of the Only
African American WACs Stationed Overseas during World War II.
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