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100	1		_aCobbs, Elizabeth _eauthor. _976470
245	1	4	_aThe Hello Girls : _bAmerica's First Women Soldiers / _cElizabeth Cobbs.
264		1	_aCambridge, Massachusetts ; _aLondon, England : _bHarvard University Press, _c2017.
300			_a370 pages,14 unnumbered pages of plates ; _c22 cm
336			_atext _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aAmerica's last citizens -- Neutrality defeated, and the telephone in war and peace -- Looking for soldiers and finding women -- We're going over: recruiting the Hello Girls -- Pack your kit: selection and training -- Wilson adopts suffrage and the Signal Corps embarks -- Americans find their way, over there -- Better late than never: the battle for the Marne -- Wilson fights for a mandate at home -- Together in the crisis of Meuse-Argonne -- Peace without victory medal -- Soldiering forward in the twentieth century.
520			_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.
610	1	0	_aUnited States. _bArmy. _bSignal Corps _xHistory _y20th century. _976471
610	1	0	_aUnited States. _bArmy _xWomen _xHistory. _976472
650		0	_aWorld War, 1914-1918 _xCommunications. _976473
650		0	_aTelephone operators _zUnited States _xHistory _y20th century. _976474
650		0	_aWorld War, 1914-1918 _xParticipation, Female. _976475
650		0	_aWomen soldiers _zUnited States _xHistory _y20th century. _976476
650		0	_aWomen veterans _zUnited States _xHistory _y20th century. _976477
650		0	_aWomen soldiers _xLegal status, laws, etc. _zUnited States. _976478
650		0	_aSex discrimination against women _zUnited States _xHistory _y20th century. _976479
650		0	_aWorld War, 1914-1918 _xRegimental histories _zUnited States. _976480
650		0	_aWomen _xSuffrage _zUnited States _xHistory _y20th century. _976481
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