Protecting the Home Front: Women in Civil Defense in the Early Cold War

ISBN-13: 9781476672120 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 258 str.

Michael Scheibach

Opis

"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"--