Her Cold War (eBook)

Women in the U.S. Military, 1945–1980

Tanya L. Roth (Autor)

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2021
320 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-6444-6 (ISBN)

Infos

While Rosie the Riveter had fewer paid employment options after being told to cede her job to returning World War II veterans, her sisters and daughters found new work opportunities in national defense. The 1948 Womens Armed Services Integration Act created permanent military positions for women with the promise of equal pay. Her Cold War follows the experiences of women in the military from the passage of the Act to the early 1980s.In the late 1940s, defense officials structured womens military roles on the basis of perceived gender differences. Classified as noncombatants, servicewomen filled roles that they might hold in civilian life, such as secretarial or medical support positions. Defense officials also prohibited pregnant women and mothers from remaining in the military and encouraged many women to leave upon marriage. Before civilian feminists took up similar issues in the 1970s, many servicewomen called for a broader definition of equality free of gender-based service restrictions. Tanya L. Roth shows us that the battles these servicewomen fought for equality paved the way for women in combat, a prerequisite for promotion to many leadership positions, and opened opportunities for other servicepeople, including those with disabilities, LGBT and gender nonconforming people, noncitizens, and more.

Autor

Tanya L. Roth received her Ph.D. in history from Washington University. She teaches history at Mary Institute and Saint Louis Country Day School.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.9.2021
• Zusatzinfo: 12 halftones, 5 tables, notes, bibl., index
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: Cold War women • DACOWITS • Dwight D. Eisenhower • equality for women • equal pay for women • Equal Rights Amendment • Equal Rights for Women • Gays and lesbians in the U.S. military • Gender integration of the U.S. military • Integration of the U.S. military • Major General Jeanne Holm • Motherhood and military service • Negotiating women's equality • Pregnancy in the US military • second wave feminism • Social history of the US military • Waves • Womanpower • Women in national defense • Women in the Air Force • Women in the Navy • Women in the service academies • Women in the US military • Women marines • Women's Armed Services Integration Act • Women's Army Corps
• ISBN-10: 1-4696-6444-5 / 1469664445
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-6444-6 / 9781469664446