1st Edition

American Women during World War II An Encyclopedia

By Doris Weatherford Copyright 2010
552 Pages
by Routledge

552 Pages
by Routledge

552 Pages
by Routledge

American Women during World War II  documents the lives and stories of women who contributed directly to the war effort via official and semi-official military organizations, as well as the millions of women who worked in civilian defense industries, ranging from aircraft maintenance to munitions manufacturing and much more. It also illuminates how the war changed the lives of women in more... Read more
List of Entries, Introduction, Entries A–Z, Bibliography, Index

Biography

Doris Weatherford has published on American women for over twenty years, including the four-volume History of Women in the United States: A State-by-State Reference. She’s associated with the Center for Florida History at Florida Southern College and the National Women’s History Museum in Washington D.C.

'Overall it's a splendid, fascinating piece of impeccably well researched work and in its aim to be a "handy" reference resource,it more than succeeds!' - Oscar Courtney, Reference Reviews

"Many encyclopedias and dictionaries have been published on World War II, with some coverage of women, but Weatherford’s work fills a major gap in reference books on this era. The encyclopedia will be of use to college and university libraries as well as public and high school libraries. …Highly recommended." —Vanette Schwartz, Feminist Collections, Vol. 31, Num. 3, Summer 2010