Doris Weatherford

One of the earlier social histories of women during World War II. Weatherford excells at locating first person accounts and that makes her book interesting, lively and useful. This is a scholarly treatment, however, because the author organizes the topic into thematic perspectives and carefully documents her sources. She deals with Army and Navy nurses, Rosie the Riveters, WACs, WAVES, SPARs and Women Marines as well as housewives on the homefront. This is one of the best general scholarly show more treatments of women during World War II, standing with D'Anne Campbell's earlier study. show less

A timeline of the history of American women from 1492 to 1995.