Girls Next Door - Bringing the Home Front to the Front Lines

Informationen zum Autor Kara Dixon Vuic is the inaugural LCpl. Benjamin W. Schmidt Professor of War, Conflict, and Society in Twentieth-Century America at Texas Christian University, an endowed position honoring a Texas Marine killed in Afghanistan. She is the author of Officer, Nurse, Woman: The Army Nurse Corps in the Vietnam War , which won the Lavinia L. Dock Book Award from the American Association for the History of Nursing and was Finalist for the Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Award. She advised and appeared in the PBS documentary USO: For the Troops , and the TLC series Who Do You Think You Are? and created an oral history collection for the Vietnam Center & Archive at Texas Tech University. Klappentext To boost soldiers¿ morale and remind them of the stakes of victory, the American military formalized a recreation program that sent respectable young women, along with famous entertainers, overseas. This history of the women who talked and listened, danced and sang, adds an intimate chapter to the story of war and its ties to life in peacetime.

Product details

• Authors: Kara Dixon Vuic
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2019
• EAN: 9780674986381
• ISBN: 978-0-674-98638-1
• No. of pages: 392
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Politikwissenschaft, Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte, Amerikanische Geschichte, 1940 bis 1949 n. Chr., Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte, Gender Studies: Frauen und Mädchen, HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, HISTORY / Military / General, Moderne Kriegsführung, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, HISTORY / Social History, military history, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Women, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Women in Politics, Political science & theory, Second World War, Social and cultural history, Gender studies: women, History of the Americas, Political science and theory, Modern warfare, c 1940 to c 1949, Gender studies: women and girls, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General