Cultivating Victory: The Women's Land Army and the Victory Garden Movement

Cultivating Victory: The Women's Land Army and the Victory Garden Movement Cecilia Gowdy-Wygant. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2013.

Whereas Rosie the Riveter captures an enormous amount of scholarly and popular consideration in discussions about gender and the home front during war times, the women of urban agriculture and rural farms have not been awarded similar treatment. Cecilia Gowdy-Wygant's Cultivating Victory. The Women's Land Army and the Victory Garden Movement successfully reveals the contributions of this under-represented group of women. What separates Cultivating Victory. The Women's Land Army and the Victory Garden Movement from other texts, such as Elaine F. Weiss's Fruits of Victory: The Woman's Land Army of America in the Great War (2008) and Twigs Way and Mike Brown's Digging for Victory: Gardens and Gardening in Wartime Britain (2010), on the same topic is Gowdy-Wygant's focus on scope. This proves to be one of the strengths of Cultivating Victory. The book is structured in three sections. It...