Protecting the Home Front
Subtitle: Women in Civil Defense in the Early Cold War
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9781476672120
Subjects: Civil defense, united states; Women and war; Sex role
Description: "Comprising 70 percent or more of civil defense workers at the height of the Cold War, American women served as FCDA wardens, nurses, home preparedness advisors, coordinators of mass feeding drills, rescue and emergency management personnel, and in various local, state, regional and national organizations. The author examines the roles they filled to promote homeland protection and preparedness"--