"During the First World War various independent women's organisations assisted the armed forces. These included such bodies as the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (FANY), which ran an ambulance service, and the Women's Legion, which deployed cookery and motor transport sections. Faced, however, with a manpower crisis as a result of the casualties on the western front, the military authorities were forced ...

Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-319) and index. 343 pages ; 24 cm.

Featuring Barry Sullivan and Myrtle Kemp. Film intends to tell the story of the work of the UJA through the experiences of American women who went abroad as UJA representatives. Notes taken from NCJF documentation: Barry and Myrtle meet on the studio lot, go to the projection room to view footage and talk. CU, 6 women in Myrtle's group that went abroad representing the Women's Commission of the UJA. ...

Met literatuuropgaven.

Two women of the Forces Francaises de l'interieur (French Forces of the Interior or FFI). One of them wears a badge bearing the double-barred cross that was the symbol of the French resistance. The camera pulls back to reveal several men in the room The FFI was a confederation of French resistance organizations.

"Many existing studies on the role of women in the Second World War concentrate on women's increasing participation in the workplace and on their struggles to cope with rationing and shortages. This book goes further, exploring women's wartime experiences much more fully. Drawing on a wide range of sources including oral interviews, scrapbooks, personal letters, diaries, newspaper articles, Mass Observation ...

Until now there has never been a systematic assessment of the "double jeopardy" of Jewish women in the Holocaust, because most of the chroniclers of this cruelest tragedy of modern history have been men. Yet for women, as scholar Myrna Goldenberg observes, "The hell was the same, but the horrors were different." Different Voices is the most thoroughgoing examination of women's experiences of the Holocaust ...

Bibliografie van boeken, tijdschriftart. en bibliografieënin het Engels over joodse vrouwen, met name in de Verenigde Staten, tijdens de tweede wereldoorlog en het joods-lesbische feminisme.

This volume contributes to the growing literature on women, conflict and peacebuilding by focusing on the moments after a peace accord, or some other official ending of a conflict, often denoted as 'post-conflict' or 'post-war'. Such moments often herald great hope for holding to account those who committed grave wrongs during the conflict, and for a better life in the future. For many women, both ...

Includes bibliographical references (page 283) and index. xiii, 289 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm

Ook verschenen in: Verhandelingen / Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde ; 122. XIII, 305 p. : illustrations, krt. ; 25 cm

Examination of the role of German women in borderlands activism in Germany's eastern regions before 1939 and their involvement in Nazi measures to Germanize occupied Poland during World War II. Harvey analyses the function of female activism within Nazi imperialism, its significance and the extent to which women embraced policies intended to segregate Germans from non-Germans and to persecute Poles ...

Includes bibliographical references and index. vii, 183 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates

Met lit. opg. en index. XVI, 304 p., [32] p. pl. : ill. ; 24 cm.

facs. xv, 247 p. : ill., graphs, tabs. ; 23 cm.

Met lit. opg. 208 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

De auteur beschrijft de oorsprong van het 'comfort women' systeem; het leven van deze 'troostmeisjes', onder zowel de Japanse als de geallieerde bezetting, in Korea, China, Nederlands-Indië en de Filippijnen; de houding van de geallieerde strijdkrachten tegenover de kwestie van de 'comfort women'; seksueel geweld door geallieerden tegen Japanse vrouwen in 1945-1946. Lit.opg.: p. 183-205.-Met index. ...

In Sisters in the Resistance, noted scholar and historian Margaret Collins Weitz weaves a remarkable collection of first-person interviews into a unique oral history of the women who fought for the French Resistance. The result is a vivid portrait of defiance and endurance that captures the unsung heroism, quiet courage, and ultimate triumph of the women in "the army of the shadows." Candidly, calmly, ...

Minutes of the general committee, 1902-18; executive committee, 1902-72; annual general meetings, 1960-71; council, 1963-70; general welfare sub-committee, 1946-59; Helen Lucas House committee, 1968-76; Delissa Joseph Memorial Fund, 1938- 64; case sub-committee, 1913-16, 1943-62; reconstruction scheme sub-committee, 1917-19; homes association sub- committee, 1927-37; and the loan funds sub-committee, ...

1st Palgrave Macmillan paperback ed. xi, 372 pages ; 22 cm

Proefschrift Columbia University New York. XV, 217 p. ; 24 cm.