| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 237 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: The Jane Addams legacy -- War looms -- A crisis of opportunity -- Rescue stories -- Home-front activism -- Women wanted -- Romances of war -- Twentieth-century feminism and new roles for women. |
| Summary |
We Are a College at War weaves together the World War II experiences of students and faculty at Rockford College in Rockford, Illinois, to provide readers with a better understanding of the role American women and college students played during this defining period in U.S. history. Drawing on the Rockford community's letters, speeches, and campus newspaper archives, the authors demonstrate how women claimed the right to be everywhere-in factories and other traditionally male workplaces, and even on the front lines-and link their efforts to the rise of feminism and the fight fo. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Rockford College -- History -- 20th century.
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Rockford College. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Cheek, Mary Ashby.
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Cheek, Mary Ashby. |
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Addams, Jane, 1860-1935.
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Addams, Jane, 1860-1935. |
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Cheek, Mary Ashby. |
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Addams, Jane, 1860-1935. |
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Rockford College -- History -- 20th century. |
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Cheek, Mary Ashby. |
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World War (1939-1945) |
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World War, 1939-1945 -- War work -- Schools.
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War work. |
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Schools. |
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War work -- Schools. |
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- Illinois.
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Women college students -- Illinois -- History -- 20th century.
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Women college students. |
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Illinois. |
| Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Bruun, Christine, 1943-
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Forslund, Catherine, 1955-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Weaks-Baxter, Mary. We are a college at war. Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, ©2010 9780809329922 (DLC) 2009049525 (OCoLC)473123729 |
| ISBN |
9780809385911 (electronic book) |
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0809385910 (electronic book) |
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9780809329922 |
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0809329921 |
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