Women and War: The Changing Status of American Women from the 1930s to the 1950s

by European Association of American Studies and Maria Diedrich

In the 1930s and 1940s American women, like women elsewhere in the Western world, experienced three very different and contradictory historical phases: women in the nation's workforce, denounced as parasites in the face of mass unemployment during the Depression, were courted to replace men in the US economy during the Second World War only to be dismissed to return to their natural realm, the home, as the GIs came back from the front.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 085496648X
• ISBN13: 9780854966486
• Release Date: October 1990
• Publisher: Berg Publishers
• Length: 166 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.