Women of the Homefront - World War II Recollections of 55 Americans

Lois A. Ferguson was a training teacher for college graduates at a Japanese relocation center in California. Her husband set up a junior college and night school program. Their efforts were to help relieve the injustices done to fellow citizens. Kay Watson's husband fought in Europe while Kay worked at one of the sites of a secret government project known as the Manhattan Project; she later learned that she might have played a small part in the plan to drop an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Mary L. Appling was a librarian in a California high school when she met Hugh Appling, a serviceman just returned from the war; together, they worked in Foreign Service for the United States for nearly thirty years, a direction affected by their actions during World War II.The recollections of these three women and 52 others are edited and presented by Pauline Parker, who also endured the war. Many women had life changing experiences during this turbulent time -- Parker has gathered the personal stories of such women as marines and government workers as well as single mothers whose husbands had gone off to fight.

List of contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments    

Preface    

Voices from Pearl Harbor    

Voices from Relocation Camps    

Voices from School    

Voices of Government Women    

Voices from the Laboratories    

Voices from Wartime Opportunities    

Voices from the Services and Military Hospitals    

Voices from Military Dependents    

Voices from Daily Life    

Voices from Abroad    

A Lonely Voice for Peace    

Voices of Grief    

Index    

About the author

The late Pauline E. Parker was a university-trained sociologist and worked as a social research analyst in the California Department of Mental Hygiene until her retirement. She lived in Portland, Oregon.

Product details

• Assisted by: Pauline E. Parker (Editor), Parker Pauline E. (Editor)
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.09.2002
• EAN: 9780786413461
• ISBN: 978-0-7864-1346-1
• No. of pages: 310
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 16 mm
• Weight: 404 g
• Illustrations: Raster,schwarz-weiss
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political administration; USA, Labor, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, HISTORY / Military / General, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, HISTORY / Military / United States, HISTORY / Women, Second World War, United States of America, USA, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Gender studies: women, History of the Americas, Modern warfare, Gender studies: women and girls, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), War and defence operations, War & defence operations, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General