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Women Marines - The World War II Era (Hardcover, New)
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Women Marines - The World War II Era (Hardcover, New)
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The nexus of this study lies in the recollections of 146 Women
Reservists who served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II
and who were surveyed by Peter Soderbergh in 1990 and 1991.
Soderbergh's purposes were (1) to gather primary data before it was
lost; (2) to cast the women's experiences in the social context of
their time; (3) to contrast the role of women in the armed forces
of the 1940s with the role they play today; (4) to give these
female pioneers a voice that speaks to current generations about
values, relationships with male counterparts, patriotism, and
competence; and (5) to provide a yardstick with which we may
measure how much, if any, progress women have made in our
patriarchal society over the past half-century. His study provides
a social chronicle of a little-studied facet of U.S. military and
women's history. The basic purpose of the book is to pay tribute to
the women of the World War II generation who were courageous enough
to join the newly created military auxiliaries. It is the only
study of its kind done on Women Reservists in the U.S. Marine Corps
during World War II. There have been official histories written by
female Marine officers, but this is the first social history. The
oral histories of these women add a dimension to our understanding
of what life was like for Women Reservists. These women, most of
them now in their seventies, come alive as they share their
experiences openly, express their feelings candidly, and remember
the good war vividly. The book inccludes many vintage photographs
from the 1943-1946 period. Women who have or are serving in the
military and their families, those interested in women's studies,
and students of the military will be especially interested in this
volume.
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