Creating GI Jane

Creating GI Jane
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Publisher : Columbia University Press
Total Pages : 284
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ISBN-10 : 0231101449
ISBN-13 : 9780231101448
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Book Synopsis Creating GI Jane by : Leisa D. Meyer

Download or read book Creating GI Jane written by Leisa D. Meyer and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Upheld current sex and race occupational segregation, assuring the public that women were in the military to do "women's work" within it, and resisting African-American women's protests against their relegation to menial labor. Yet Creating GI Jane is also the story of how, in spite of a palpable climate of repression, many women effectively carved out spaces and seized opportunities in the early WAC. African-American women and men worked together in demanding civil.


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