Making War, Making Women: Femininity and Duty on the American Home Front, 1941-1945

Author/Contributor(s):	McEuen, Melissa a
Publisher:	University of Georgia Press
Date:	02/15/2011
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Using perspectives of cultural studies and feminist theory and drawing on war propaganda, popular advertising, government records, and hundreds of accounts written by women in the 1940s, McEuen examines how extensively women's bodies and minds became "battlegrounds" in the U.S. fight for victory in World War II.