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Contents

prologue For Carol Lynn

Unearthing Our Mothers' War Years

Part I

one To Bring Him Home Safely

Wives, Mothers, and Sisters of Servicemen

two Soldiers Without Guns

Female Defense Industry Workers

three Putting Up a Good Front

Female Entertainers, Fictional Characters, and Icons

Part II

four This Man's Army

WACs

five On Duty at Home

WAVES, SPARs, Marines, and WASPs

six Save His Life and Find Your Own

Volunteers, Land Army, Red Cross Girls, and Nurses

seven Jane Crow

African-American Women

eight Behind Enemy Lines

Spies, Propaganda Workers, and Those Who Worked for the Enemy

nine A Question of Loyalty

Japanese-American Women

ten Qualified Successes

Politicians, Journalists, Doctors, Baseball Players, and Other Professional Women

Part III

eleven The "Wrong Kind" of Woman

Prostitutes, Unwed Mothers, and Lesbians

twelve A War Within the War

Right-Wing, Anti-Semitic Mothers' Groups and Jewish-American Women

thirteen Inside the Secret City

Wives and WACs in Los Alamos

epilogue Their Legacy

Our Mothers' War Years Resounding Through Our Lives

Notes

Bibliography

Acknowledgments

Index

Permission Credits