Women Marines: The World War II Era

by Peter A. Soderbergh

Book Overview

The nexus of this study lies in the recollections of 146 Women Reservists who served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II and who were surveyed by Peter Soderbergh in 1990 and 1991. Soderbergh's purposes were (1) to gather primary data before it was lost; (2) to cast the women's experiences in the social context of their time; (3) to contrast the role of women in the armed forces of the 1940s with the role they play today; (4) to give these...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275941310
• ISBN13: 9780275941314
• Release Date: July 1992
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"