Title: Women in the military :
Authors: Holm, Jeanne,
Date: 1982
Publisher: Presidio Press,
Physical description: xvii, 434 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language: English
LC classification: U
Abstract: An account of women's accomplishments in the Armed Forces inspite of limitations, and surveys legislative action behind the services.
Contents: pt. I. Revolution through World War II. In Molly's wake: the early years -- Between the wars: demobilization 1919-25 -- The first breakthrough: World War II -- Getting it together -- The big push -- Consolidation -- Attitudes and changing customs -- Overseas -- War's end -- pt. II. Integration through Vietnam. Integration: 1948 -- The fledgling Air Force -- The fifties: Korea and the Cold War -- WAF: an endangered species -- The sixties: typewriter soldiers -- A new beginning -- Vietnam -- Tet Offensive: the test -- pt. III. Expanding seventies to uncertain eighties. The seventies: a decade of expansion -- Policies catching up with realities -- Family policy -- The service academies -- Taking to the air and the sea -- Registration and the draft -- Issues and decisions -- The eighties: entering a new phase.
Notes: Includes index.
Subject headings (LCSH): United States--Armed Forces--Women.; Women and the military--United States--History.; Women soldiers--United States--History.