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003			OCoLC
005			20240726105038.0
008			170328s2017 mauaf ob 001 0deng d
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020			_a9780674978591 _q((electronic)l(electronic)ctronic)
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050	0	4	_aD639 _b.H455 2017
049			_aMAIN
100	1		_aCobbs Hoffman, Elizabeth, _e1
245	1	0	_aThe Hello Girls : _bAmerica's first women soldiers / _cElizabeth Cobbs.
246	3	0	_aAmerica's first women soldiers
260			_aCambridge, Massachusetts : _bHarvard University Press, _c(c)2017.
300			_a1 online resource (370 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
347			_adata file _2rda
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505	0	0	_aAmerica's last citizens -- _tNeutrality defeated, and the telephone in war and peace -- _tLooking for soldiers and finding women -- _tWe're going over: recruiting the Hello Girls -- _tPack your kit: selection and training -- _tWilson adopts suffrage and the Signal Corps embarks -- _tAmericans find their way, over there -- _tBetter late than never: the battle for the Marne -- _tWilson fights for a mandate at home -- _tTogether in the crisis of Meuse-Argonne -- _tPeace without victory medal -- _tSoldiering forward in the twentieth century.
520	0		_a"In World War I, telephones linked commanding generals with soldiers in muddy trenches. A woman in uniform connected almost every one of their calls, speeding the orders that won the war. Like other soldiers, the "Hello Girls" swore the Army oath and stayed for the duration. A few were graduates of elite colleges. Most were ordinary, enterprising young women motivated by patriotism and adventure, eager to test their mettle and save the world. The first contingent arrived in France just as the German Army trained "Big Bertha" on Paris, bombarding the frightened city as the new women of the U.S. Army struggled through unlit streets to find their billets. A handful followed General Pershing to the gates of Verdun and the battlefields of Meuse-Argonne. When the switchboard operators sailed home a year later, the Army dismissed them without veterans' benefits or victory medals. The women commenced a sixty-year fight that a handful of survivors carried to triumph in 1979. This book shows how technological developments encouraged an unusual band to volunteer for military service at the precise moment that feminists back home championed a federal suffrage amendment. The same desire to participate fully in the life of their country animated both groups, and both struggled after 1920 to reap the rewards of victory. Their experiences illuminate ways in which sex-role change was embraced and resisted throughout the twentieth century, and the ways that men and women struggled together for gender justice."--Provided by publisher.
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610	1	0	_aUnited States. _bArmy. _bSignal Corps _xHistory _y20th century.
610	1	0	_aUnited States. _bArmy _xWomen _xHistory.
650		0	_aWorld War, 1914-1918 _xCommunications.
650		0	_aTelephone operators _zUnited States _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aWorld War, 1914-1918 _xParticipation, Female.
650		0	_aWomen soldiers _zUnited States _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aWomen veterans _zUnited States _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aWomen soldiers _xLegal status, laws, etc. _zUnited States.
650		0	_aSex discrimination against women _zUnited States _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aWorld War, 1914-1918 _xRegimental histories _zUnited States.
650		0	_aWomen _xSuffrage _zUnited States _xHistory _y20th century.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
856	4	0	_uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1491558&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 _zClick to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password
942			_cOB _D _eEB _hD. _m2017 _QOL _R _x _8NFIC _2LOC
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell