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The Second Line of Defense
Lynn Dumenil
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The University of North Carolina Press 
Sozialwissenschaften, Recht, Wirtschaft / Allgemeines, Lexika
Beschreibung
In tracing the rise of the modern idea of the American "new woman," Lynn Dumenil examines World War I's surprising impact on women and, in turn, women's impact on the war. Telling the stories of a diverse group of women, including African Americans, dissidents, pacifists, reformers, and industrial workers, Dumenil analyzes both the roadblocks and opportunities they faced. She richly explores the ways in which women helped the United States mobilize for the largest military endeavor in the nation's history. Dumenil shows how women activists staked their claim to loyal citizenship by framing their war work as homefront volunteers, overseas nurses, factory laborers, and support personnel as "the second line of defense." But in assessing the impact of these contributions on traditional gender roles, Dumenil finds that portrayals of these new modern women did not always match with real and enduring change. Extensively researched and drawing upon popular culture sources as well as archival material,
The Second Line of Defense offers a comprehensive study of American women and war and frames them in the broader context of the social, cultural, and political history of the era.
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World War I and American women’s service abroad, World War I and social reformers, World War I and Black Women, Black Women, Civil Rights, and World War I, World War I and women industrial workers, World War I and suffrage, World War I and film: World War I and women in popular culture, Women and the Homefront in World War I, World War I and the new woman, Women, World War I, and Mobilization, World War I and feminism, World, “New Women” and World War I, World War I and women’s pacifism, Images of American Women in World War I