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

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.

Author(s): Melissa A. McEuen
Published: 2011
Pages: 270
Categories: History