xi, 406 pages : 24 cm

Women in the military: a perspective from the Air Force / Sheila E. Widnall -- Servicewomen and the American military experience / D'Ann Campbell -- Creating a women's corps: public response to the WAAC/WAC and questions of citizenship / Leisa D. Meyer -- The wartime history of the Waves, Spars, Women marines, Army and Navy Nurses, and Wasps / Judy Barrett Litoff and David C. Smith -- Women, medicine, and war / Mary T. Sarnecky -- The Wac as cryptographer / Mary B. Johnston -- "Angels calling from the sky": the women pilots of World War II / RitaVictoria Gomez -- My experiences as a Spar during World War II, (February 1943-June 1946) / Dorothy Jeanne Gleason -- Service life in the Women's Army Corps and Afro-American Wacs / Janet Sims-Wood -- World War II experiences of a POW Navy Nurse / Mary Harrington Nelson -- Publishing and self-publishing memoirs / Linda Grant de Pauw -- A traveler's guide to the chronicles of military women in World War II / Eleanor Stoddard -- Museums, film and graphic archives, and educational resources / Clare M. Cronin -- Invitation to scholarship: an introduction to records in the National Archives / DeAnne Blanton -- Women at war: still pictures relating to U.S. women in the military during World War II / Barbara Lewis Burger -- Reading cultural text in government films: women, image, and the World War II experience / Jennifer A. Nelson -- Securing the "double V": African-American and Japanese-American women in the military during World War II / Cynthia Neverdon-Morton -- women as veterans: historical perspective and expectations / Mary V. Stremlow -- World War II and proactive women / Mary E. Haas

Papers presented at a conference entitled "A Woman's War Too, U.S. Women in the Military in World War II", held in Mar. 1995

Includes bibliographical references and index

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