Women and World War in Comparative Perspective
Title | Women and World War in Comparative Perspective |
Publication Type | Book Chapter |
Year of Publication | 2018 |
Authors | Winchell, Meghan K. |
Editor | Hartigan-O'Connor, Ellen, and Lisa G. Materson |
Book Title | The Oxford Handbook of American Women's and Gender History |
Pagination | 595-616 |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
City | New York |
Abstract | This chapter compares women’s experiences in World War I and World War II, emphasizing the ways that wartime mobilization shaped the citizenship claims, cultural representations, labor experiences, military contributions, and sexual expression of diverse groups of women. It focuses on how women applied their gendered, racialized, and classed bodies to wartime experiences that often put them at odds with propaganda images of femininity. The wartime context inspired the actions of women like gold star mothers who represented sacrifice, activists who fought for women suffrage, and African Americans who protested segregation. Some women embodied Rosie the Riveter by working in war industries, many cultivated victory gardens, and others served in the Women’s Army Corps. Young women found themselves caught in government projects to curtail venereal disease while seeking sexual autonomy. |
URL | https://academic.oup.com/edited-volume/28063/chapter-abstract/212063030?redirectedFrom=fulltext |
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