Title:
It's my country too : women's military stories from the American Revolution to Afghanistan / edited by Jerri Bell & Tracy Crow ; foreword by Kayla Williams.
Author:
Bell, Jerri, editor.
Crow, Tracy, editor.
Publication Information:
Lincoln, NB : Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press, [2017]
Call Number:
UB418.W65 B448 2017
Abstract:
This inspiring anthology it the first to convey the noteworthy experiences and contributions of women in the American military in their own words-from the Revolutionary War to the present wars in the Middle East. Serving with the Union Army during the Civil War as a nurse, scout, spy, and soldier, Harriet Tubman tells what it was like to be the first American woman to lead a raid against an enemy, freeing some 750 slaves. Busting gender stereotypes, Inga Fredriksen Ferris's describes how it felt to be a woman marine during World War II. Heidi Squier Kraft recounts her experiences as a lieutenant commander in the navy, deployed to Iraq as a psychologist to provide mental health care in a combat zone. In excerpts from their diaries, letters, oral histories, military depositions and testimonies, as well as from published and unpublished memoirs-generations of women reveal why and how they chose to serve their country, often breaking with social norms and at great personal peril.
Geographic Term:
ISBN:
9781612348315
Physical Description:
xxi, 330 pages, 22 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Contents:
The American Revolution -- The Civil War -- The Spanish-American war -- World War I -- World War II -- Unconventional operations, espionage, and the Cold War -- Women's integration and the Korean War -- The Vietnam War -- Gender wars -- Desert Storm -- Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi freedom.
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