Two Colored Women in France in World War I (New Intro, Annotated)

Two Colored Women in France in World War I (New Intro, Annotated)

Author: Addie W. Hunton

Publisher: BIG BYTE BOOKS

Published:

Total Pages: 194

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Approximately 150,000 African-American soldiers, officers and men went to France to serve in WWI. Alongside them were thousands of African-American women who served in the various volunteer relief organizations like the Red Cross and the Y.M.C.A. Addie Hunton and Kathryn Johnson were two of the women who served. With keen observation and intelligence, they tell the story of what it was like to be overseas "fighting for democracy" with only a glimmer of hope of achieving it back home after the war. They relate the soldiers' stories as well as their own excitement at their new experiences in Europe. Their experience of interacting with the French sharply contrasted with the segregation and humiliation exported from America to France with the Yankee troops. Yet they did not carry bitterness home with them. They remained proud and glad that they had the privilege to serve. For less than you'd spend on gas going to the library, this long out-of-print volume is available as an affordable, well-formatted book for e-readers and smartphones. Be sure to LOOK INSIDE by clicking the cover above or download a sample.


Two Colored Women in World War I France (New Intro, Annotated)

Two Colored Women in World War I France (New Intro, Annotated)

Author: Kathryn Magnolia Johnson

Publisher:

Published: 2016-11-22

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 9781519059710

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Approximately 150,000 African-American soldiers, officers and men went to France to serve in WWI. Alongside them were thousands of African-American women who served in the various volunteer relief organizations like the Red Cross and the Y.M.C.A.Addie Hunton and Kathryn Johnson were two of the women who served. With keen observation and intelligence, they tell the story of what it was like to be overseas "fighting for democracy" with only a glimmer of hope of achieving it back home after the war.They relate the soldiers' stories as well as their own excitement at their new experiences in Europe.Their experience of interacting with the French sharply contrasted with the segregation and humiliation exported from America to France with the Yankee troops. Yet they did not carry bitterness home with them. They remained proud and glad that they had the privilege to serve.


Women and the Second World War in France, 1939-1948

Women and the Second World War in France, 1939-1948

Author: Hanna Diamond

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-10-23

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 1317885430

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This is the first book (in either English or French) to offer readers an overview of women's experience of the Second World War and its immediate aftermath in France. It examines objectively the part that women played in both collaboration and resistance, synthesising much recent scholarship on the subject in French and English, and drawing on the author's own extensive research (including oral testimony) in Toulouse, Paris, and West Brittany. The findings are complex, and the immensely varied testimony challenges easy generalisation. This will be relevant for courses on French studies, French and European history and Women's studies.


Women and the Second World War in France, 1939-48

Women and the Second World War in France, 1939-48

Author: Hanna Diamond

Publisher: Longman Publishing Group

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13:

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Hanna Diamond presents varied testimony to reveal the realities of women's daily lives and the role they played in both collaboration and resistance. She considers the political choices they had to make and the constraints they were under.


Behind the Lines

Behind the Lines

Author: Margaret R. Higonnet

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 1987-01-01

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 9780300044294

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Essays analyze the two world wars in respect to gender politics and reassesses the differences between men and women in relation to war


The Wombs of Women

The Wombs of Women

Author: Françoise Vergès

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2020-07-17

Total Pages: 108

ISBN-13: 1478008865

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In the 1960s thousands of poor women of color on the (post)colonial French island of Reunion had their pregnancies forcefully terminated by white doctors; the doctors operated under the pretext of performing benign surgeries, for which they sought government compensation. When the scandal broke in 1970, the doctors claimed to have been encouraged to perform these abortions by French politicians who sought to curtail reproduction on the island, even though abortion was illegal in France. In The Wombs of Women—first published in French and appearing here in English for the first time—Françoise Vergès traces the long history of colonial state intervention in black women’s wombs during the slave trade and postslavery imperialism as well as in current birth control politics. She examines the women’s liberation movement in France in the 1960s and 1970s, showing that by choosing to ignore the history of the racialization of women’s wombs, French feminists inevitably ended up defending the rights of white women at the expense of women of color. Ultimately, Vergès demonstrates how the forced abortions on Reunion were manifestations of the legacies of the racialized violence of slavery and colonialism.


Demography: Analysis and Synthesis, Four Volume Set

Demography: Analysis and Synthesis, Four Volume Set

Author: Graziella Caselli

Publisher: Academic Press

Published: 2006-01-03

Total Pages: 2857

ISBN-13: 012765660X

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This four-volume collection of over 140 original chapters covers virtually everything of interest to demographers, sociologists, and others. Over 100 authors present population subjects in ways that provoke thinking and lead to the creation of new perspectives, not just facts and equations to be memorized. The articles follow a theory-methods-applications approach and so offer a kind of "one-stop shop" that is well suited for students and professors who need non-technical summaries, such as political scientists, public affairs specialists, and others. Unlike shorter handbooks, Demography: Analysis and Synthesis offers a long overdue, thorough treatment of the field. Choosing the analytical method that fits the data and the situation requires insights that the authors and editors of Demography: Analysis and Synthesis have explored and developed. This extended examination of demographic tools not only seeks to explain the analytical tools themselves, but also the relationships between general population dynamics and their natural, economic, social, political, and cultural environments. Limiting themselves to human populations only, the authors and editors cover subjects that range from the core building blocks of population change--fertility, mortality, and migration--to the consequences of demographic changes in the biological and health fields, population theories and doctrines, observation systems, and the teaching of demography. The international perspectives brought to these subjects is vital for those who want an unbiased, rounded overview of these complex, multifaceted subjects. Topics to be covered: * Population Dynamics and the Relationship Between Population Growth and Structure * The Determinants of Fertility * The Determinants of Mortality * The Determinants of Migration * Historical and Geographical Determinants of Population * The Effects of Population on Health, Economics, Culture, and the Environment * Population Policies * Data Collection Methods and Teaching about Population Studies * All chapters share a common format * Each chapter features several cross-references to other chapters * Tables, charts, and other non-text features are widespread * Each chapter contains at least 30 bibliographic citations


Two Colored Women with the American Expeditionary Forces

Two Colored Women with the American Expeditionary Forces

Author: Addie W. Hunton

Publisher:

Published: 1920

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13:

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Addle Waites Hunton (1875-1943) was an activist for the rights of African Americans during the first half of the twentieth century. Her husband, William Alphaeus Hunton, was an executive for the YMCA and the first Black secretary of the international committee of that organization. After her husband's death in 1916, Hunton became involved in the YMCA's work abroad serving Black troops during World War I. This book is her memoir of these experiences, written with her co-worker Kathryn Johnson.


Shame and the Anti-Feminist Backlash

Shame and the Anti-Feminist Backlash

Author: Sharon Crozier-De Rosa

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-11-28

Total Pages: 361

ISBN-13: 1136200738

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Shame and the Anti-Feminist Backlash examines how women opposed to the feminist campaign for the vote in early twentieth-century Britain, Ireland, and Australia used shame as a political tool. It demonstrates just how proficient women were in employing a diverse vocabulary of emotions – drawing on concepts like embarrassment, humiliation, honour, courage, and chivalry – in the attempt to achieve their political goals. It looks at how far nationalist contexts informed each gendered emotional community at a time when British imperial networks were under extreme duress. The book presents a unique history of gender and shame which demonstrates just how versatile and ever-present this social emotion was in the feminist politics of the British Empire in the early decades of the twentieth century. It employs a fascinating new thematic lens to histories of anti-feminist/feminist entanglements by tracing national and transnational uses of emotions by women to police their own political communities. It also challenges the common notion that shame had little place in a modernizing world by revealing how far groups of patriotic womanhood, globally, deployed shame to combat the effects of feminist activism.