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Informationen zum Autor Elaine Weiss is a journalist and narrative non-fiction author. Her magazine feature writing has been recognized with prizes from the Society of Professional Journalists, and her by-line has appeared in The Atlantic, Harper’s, New York Times, Boston Globe, Philadelphia Inquirer, as well as reports and documentaries for National Public Radio and Voice of America. She has been a frequent correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor. Klappentext "Imagine a more controversial Rosie the Riveter--a generation older and more outlandish for her time. She was the 'farmerette' of the Woman's Land Army of America (WLA), doing a man's job on the home front during World War I. From 1917 to 1920 the WLA sent more than twenty thousand urban women into rural America to take over farm work after the men went off to war and food shortages threatened the nation. These women, from all social and economic strata, lived together in communal camps and did what was considered 'men's work': plowing fields, driving tractors, planting, harvesting, and hauling lumber. The Land Army was a civilian enterprise organized and financed by women. It insisted on fair labor practices and pay equal to male laborers' wages for its workers and taught women not only agricultural skills but also leadership and management techniques. Despite their initial skepticism, farmers became the WLA's loudest champions, and the farmerette was celebrated as an icon of American women's patriotism and pluck. The WLA's short but spirited life foreshadowed some of the most significant social issues of the twentieth century: women's changing roles, the problem of class distinctions in a democracy, and the physiological and psychological differences between men and women. The dramatic story of the WLA is vividly retold here using long-buried archival material, allowing a fascinating chapter of America's World War I experience to be rediscovered"-- Zusammenfassung From 1917 to 1920 the Woman’s Land Army (WLA) brought thousands of city workers, society women, artists, business professionals, and college students into rural America to take over the farm work after men were called to wartime service. Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgmentsPrelude: Liberty Day Part One: The Girl With a Hoe Behind the Man With a Gun1. The Right to Serve: A British Land Army 2. Female Preparedness 3. An Agricultural Army 4. Suffrage Agriculture 5. Soil Sisters 6. A Feminine Invasion of the Land: The Bedford Camp 7. Farmerettes and Hoover Helpers: Fall 1917 8. Women on the Land 9. A Hysterical Appeal 10. A Fine Propaganda: The Fair Farmerette and Her Publicity Machine 11. Enlist Now! Part Two: The Patriot Farmette12. In Bifurcated Garb of Toil: California 13. Hortense Powdermaker in Maryland 14. Cultivating the Soothing Weed: Connecticut 15. Libertyville: Illinois 16. Girls Who Thought Potatoes Grew on Trees: New England 17. The Farmerette in Wanamaker’s Window: Selling the Land Army in New Jersey 18. Georgia Cotton 19. Harsh Terrain 20. Miss Diehl and the Wellesley Experiment Station 21. Tiller, Planter, Gleaner: New York 22. Marriage of Convenience 23. A Hungry World 24. Carry On 25. Farmerette Redux: 1919 and Beyond Notes Bibliography Index...
