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In Uncle Sam's Service - Women Workers with the American Expeditionary Force, 1917-1919 (Paperback)
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In Uncle Sam's Service - Women Workers with the American Expeditionary Force, 1917-1919 (Paperback)
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During World War I, the first U.S. war in which women were
mobilized by the armed services on a mass scale, more than sixteen
thousand female personnel served overseas with the American
Expeditionary Force. Elite society women--the so-called heiress
corps--have dominated the popular perception of women's service
ever since. But Susan Zeiger shows that the majority of these
female nurses, clerical workers, telephone operators, and canteen
workers were wage-earners whose motives for enlistment ranged from
patriotism to economic self-interest, from a sense of adventure to
a desire to challenge gender boundaries.
In exploring women's experience of war, Zeiger draws from a wealth
of diaries, letters, questionnaires, oral histories, and memoirs,
as well as army records. She analyzes the ways women's wartime
service brought to light contradictions in prevailing gender
relations at the height of the campaign for women's suffrage, and
she places the stories of servicewomen in the broader context of
women's employment in the early twentieth century. At a time when
women sought to expand their personal opportunities, Zeiger argues,
the government, determined to contain the disruption to the gender
status quo, created a separate, subordinate status for women in the
military, attempting to "domesticate" and reinscribe them within
conventional roles.
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