TY - JOUR
AU - Swerdlow, Amy
AB - 1566 The Journal of American History March 1998 the military was the Vietnam War. The war A Woman's war 100: U.S. Women in the Mdi­ itself generated increasingly greater levels of tary in World war II. Ed. by Paula Nassen violence from the Tet Offensive to MyLai. With Poulos. (Washington: National Archives and each new escalation of the violence, the debate Records Administration, 1997. xii, 406 pp. $25.00, ISBN 1-880875-09-8.) became more intense in the ranks of evangel­ icals between those rather uncritically support­ ing the war (especially Billy Graham, whom Now that sexual harassment, gender inequal­ Richard M. Nixon shamelessly manipulated to ity, and discrimination toward homosexuals help keep public support for the war) and the in the United States Army are everyday items steadily more vocal critics. These tensions were in the media and subjects of debate by poli­ ticians and the general public, it is not surpris­ never really resolved, but perhaps the most significant enduring effect of the debate, for ing that feminist historians are turning their better or worse, was to involve evangelicals in attention to the examination of the status, role, the process of active participation in national treatment, and possibilities of women 
TI - Creating GI Jane: Sexuality and Power in the Women's Army Corps during World War II. By Leisa D. Meyer. New York: Columbia University Press, 1996. xii, 260 pp. $29.50 and A Woman's War Too: U.S. Women in the Military in World War II. Ed. by Paula Nassen Poulos. Washington: National Archives and Records Administration, 1997. xii, 406 pp. $25.00
JF - The Journal of American History
DO - 10.2307/2568208
DA - 1998-03-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/creating-gi-jane-sexuality-and-power-in-the-women-s-army-corps-during-0c9fWIMs3C
SP - 1566
EP - 1567
VL - 84
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -