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Women against the Good War : Conscientious Objection and Gender On the American Home Front, 1941-1947 Gender & American Culture
author
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Goossen, Rachel Waltner.
publisher
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University of North Carolina Press
isbn10 | asin
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080782366X
print isbn13
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9780807823668
ebook isbn13
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9780807861721
language
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English
subject
World War, 1939-1945--Conscientious objectors--United States, World War, 1939-1945--Moral and ethical aspects, World War, 1939-1945--Women--United States, Women--United States--History--20th century.
publication date
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1997
lcc
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D810.C82G66 1997eb
ddc
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940.53/162
subject
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World War, 1939-1945--Conscientious objectors--United States, World War, 1939-1945--Moral and ethical aspects, World War, 1939-1945--Women--United States, Women--United States--History--20th century.
Page i
Women Against the Good War
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Gender & American Culture
COEDITORS Linda K. Kerber Nell Irvin Painter
EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD Nancy Cott Cathy N. Davidson Thadious Davis Jane Sherron De Hart Sara Evans Mary Kelley Annette Kolodny Wendy Martin Janice Radway Barbara Sicherman
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Women Against the Good War
Conscientious Objection and Gender on the American Home Front, 1941-1947
Rachel Waltner Goossen
The University of North Carolina Press Chapel Hill and London
Page iv
1997 The University of North Carolina Press All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Goossen, Rachel Waltner. Women against the Good War: conscientious objection and gender on the American home front, 1941-1947/by Rachel Waltner Goossen. p. cm. (Gender & American culture) Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. ISBN 0-8078-2366-x (cloth: alk. paper). ISBN 0-8078-4672-4 (pbk.: alk. paper) 1. World War, 1939-1945 Conscientious objectors United States. 2. World War, 1939-1945 Moral and ethical aspects. 3. World War, 1939-1945 Women United States. 4. Women United States History 20th century. I. Title. II. Series. D810.C82G66 1997 940.53'162 dc2197-9885 CIP
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Portions of this work appeared previously in Rachel Waltner Goossen, "The `Second Sex' and the `Second Milers': Mennonite Women and Civilian Public Service," Mennonite Quarterly Review 66 (October 1992): 525-38.
Page v
FOR MY PARENTS
Page vii
Contents
Acknowledgments
xi
Abbreviations
xiii
Introduction
1
Chapter 1. The Conscripting of Civilians
11
Chapter 2. Am I Worth Dying For?
29
Chapter 3. No Girl Should Marry into This Kind of Life
44
Chapter 4. Looking for a Few Good Women
69
Chapter 5. Collegiate Women Pacifists
94
Chapter 6. In the Aftermath of War
112
Conclusion
129
Appendix: Questionnaire on Women and Civilian Public Service
133
Notes
137
Bibliography
159
Index
175
Page ix
Illustrations and Tables
Illustrations
Staff and C.O.s at the first CPS camp to open, Patapsco, Maryland, May 1941
20
U.S. Forest Service work performed by conscientious objectors at Royalston, Massachusetts
21
Map of Civilian Public Service locations
22
Lew Ayres, star of the film All Quiet on the Western Front, en route to a CPS camp in Oregon
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