Transcending Apple Pie and Motherhood: Women in the Military

CAUTION: Graphic Content and Sexual Themes.

By Joseph Mumley

01 / 19

Thank You for Reading.

Interviews and documents from the Veteran's History Project, supplemented by the following books and articles.

Books:

Bolzenius, Sandra M. Glory in Their Spirit: How Four Black Women Took On the Army during World War II. Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 2018.

Escobedo, Elizabeth. From Coveralls to Zoot Suits: The Lives of Mexican American Women on the World War II Homefront. North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 2021.

May, Eliane Tyler. Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War. 4th ed. New Ork: Basic Books, 2017.

Minear, Larry. Through Veterans' Eyes: The Iraq and Afghanistan Experience. Virginia: Potomac Books, 2010.

Rivas-Rodriguez, Maggie and Emilio Zamora, ed. Beyond the Latino World War II Hero: The Social and Political Legacy of a Generation. Texas: University of Texas Press, 2009.

Rivas-Rodriguez, Maggie and B. V. Olguin, ed. Latina/os and World War II: Mobility, Agency and Ideology. Texas: University of Texas Press, 2014.

Roth, Tanya L. Her Cold War: Women in the U.S. Military, 1945-1980. North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 2021.

Threat, Charissa J. Nursing Civil Rights: Gender and Race in the Army Nurse Corps. Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 2015.

Tomblin, Barbara Brooks. G.I. Nightingales: The Army Nurse Corps in World War II. University Press of Kentucky, 2003.

Vuic, Kara Dixon. The Girls Next Door: Bringing the Home Front to the Front Lines. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2019.

Vuic, Kara Dixon. Officer, Nurse, Woman: The Army Nurse Corps in the Vietnam War. New York: John Hopkins University Press, 2010.

Wiener, Tom, ed. Voices of War: Stories from the Homefront and the Front Lines. Washington D.C.: The Library of Congress, 2004.

Wiener, Tom. Forever a Soldier: Unforgettable Stories of Wartime Service. Washington D.C.: The Library of Congress, 2005.

Articles:

Campbell, D'Ann. "Servicewomen Of World War II." Armed Forces and Society 16, no. 2 (1990): 251-70.

Campbell, D’Ann. “Women in Combat: The World War II Experience in the United States, Great Britain, Germany, and the Soviet Union.” The Journal of Military History 57, no. 2 (1993): 301–23.

Cornelsen, Kathleen. "Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II: Exploring Military Aviation, Encountering Discrimination, and Exchanging Traditional Roles in Service to America." Journal of Women's History 17, no. 4 (2005): 111-19.

Johnson, Denise R. “Central Illinois Women Who Served in the Military During World War II.” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society (1998-) 110, no. 3–4 (2017): 325–51.

Gouveia, Grace Mary. ""We Also Serve": American Indian Women's Role in World War II." The Michigan Historical Review 20, no. 2 (1994): 153-82.

Moore, Brenda L. "Introduction to Armed Forces & Society." Armed Forces and Society 43, no. 2 (2017): 191-201.

Viehdorfer Frank, Mary E. and Robert V. Piemonte. "The Army Nurse Corps: A Decade of Change." The American Journal of Nursing 85, no. 9 (1985): 985-88.

Vuic, Kara Dixon. "“I’m Afraid We’re Going to Have to Just Change Our Ways”: Marriage, Motherhood, and Pregnancy in the Army Nurse Corps during the Vietnam War." Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 32, no. 4 (2007): 997-1022.

Ziobro, Melissa. "Skirted Soldiers: The Women's Army Corps and Gender Integration of the U.S. Army during World War II." On Point 17, no. 4 (2012): 36-43.

All images and video are Property of the Connecticut Veterans History Project

By Joseph Mumley; earned a B.A. in history from Central Connecticut State University in 2021 and planned to graduate in 2023 with his M.A. in Public History.