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WAR Doris Weatherford, AMERICAN WOMEN DURING WORLD WAR II: AN ENCYCLOPEDIA. New York: Routledge, 2010. 552p. bibl. index. $195.00, ISBN 978-0415994750.
From Rosie the Riveter to Axis Sally, women in World War II have been depicted as everything from defense workers and keepers of the home front to spies and demoralizers of American troops. The reality of women's roles in the Second World War is more complex and wide-ranging, as Doris Weatherford demonstrates in this new encyclopedia from Routledge. Weatherford is also the author and editor of several other monographs and reference books on women's history, including A History of the American Suffragist Movement (1998) , The Women's Almanac (2000), and A History of Women in the United States: State by State Reference (2004).
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