Minerva Bookstore Nonfiction Selections

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General

Dever, John P. and Maria C. Dever. Women and the Military: Over 100
Notable Contributors, Historic to Contemporary
. ( Jefferson, NC: McFarland,1995.)
ISBN: 0899509762

Friedl, Vicki L.
Women in the United States Military, 1901-1995: a research guide and annotated bibliography
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(Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1996)
ISBN: 031329657X

Holm, Jeanne
Women in the Military : An Unfinished Revolution
(Presidio Press, 1993)
ISBN: 0891415130

Stiehm, Judith, ed.
It’s Our Military, Too : Women and the U.S. Military
(Temple Univ Press, 1996)
ISBN: 1566394562

Autobiographical Writing

Collins, Winifred Quick with Herbert M. Levine
More Than A Uniform: A Navy Woman in a Navy Man’s World
(University of North Texas Press, 1997)
ISBN: 1574410229

Eighteenth Century

De Pauw, Linda Grant
Founding Mothers: Women of America in the Revolutionary Era
(Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1975)
ISBN: 0395218969

Kates, Gary
Monsieur d’Eon is a Woman: A Tale of Political Intrigue and Sexual Masquerade
(New York: Basic Books, 1995)
ISBN: 0465047629

Mayer, Holly A.
Belonging to the Army: Camp Followers and Community during the American Revolution
(Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1997)
ISBN: 1570031088

Seafaring Women

Creighton, Margaret S. and Lisa Norling, eds.
Iron Men, Wooden Women: Gender and Seafaring in the Atlantic World, 1700-1920
(Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996)
ISBN: 0801851602

De Pauw, Linda Grant
Seafaring Women
(Pasadena, Md.: The MINERVA Center, 1997)
new paperback edition, publication date November 1997

Stanley, Jo (ed)
Bold in Her Breeches
Women Pirates Across the Ages
(New York: Pandora, 1995)
ISBN: 0044408927

Stark, Suzanne J.
Female Tars: Women Aboard Ship in the Age of Sail
(Annapolis, Md.: United States Naval Institute, 1996)
ISBN: 1557507384

Civil War

Burgess, Lauren Cook, ed.
An Uncommon Soldier: The Civil War Letters of Sarah Rosetta Wakeman, Alias Lyons Wakeman, 153rd Regiment, New York State Volunteers
(Pasadena, Md.: The MINERVA Center, 1994)
ISBN: 0963489518

Clinton, Catherine
Divided Houses: Gender and the Civil War
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1992)
ISBN 0195080343

Hagerman, Keppel
Dearest of Captains: A biography of Sally Louisa Tompkins
(Brandylane Publishers, 1996)
ISBN: 1883911095

Leonard, Elizabeth D.
Yankee Women: Gender Battles in the Civil War
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(New York: Norton, 1994)
ISBN: 0393313727

Massey, Elizabeth
Women in the Civil War
(Univ Nebraska Press, 1994.)
ISBN: 0803282133

Woolsey, Jane Stuart
Hospital Days: Reminiscence of a Civil War Nurse
(Edinborough Press, 2nd edition March 2001)
First printed in 1867, Woolsey’s book was called “probably the best book about the Civil War by a woman writer” in George Adams’ Doctors in Blue.
ISSN:  1889020095

World War I

Gavin, Lettie
American Women in World War I: They Also Served
(Niwot, Co: University of Colorado Press, 1997)
ISBN: 087081432X

Klein, Yvonne M., ed.
Beyond the Home Front: Women’s Autobiographical Writing of the Two World Wars
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(New York: New York University Press, 1997)
ISBN 0-8147-4702-7

World War II

Dammann, Nancy
A Wac’s Story
(Social Change Press, 1991)
ISBN: 0960937617

Danner, Dorothy Still
What a Way to Spend a War: Navy Nurse POW’s in the Phillipines
G K Hall & Co,1997
ISBN: 0783820216

Fortin, Noonie
Memories of Maggie : Martha Raye : A Legend Spanning Three Wars
Langmarc Pub, 1996
ISBN: 1880292181

Hodgson, Marion Stegeman
Winning My Wings: A Woman Airforce Service Pilot in World War II
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(Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1996
ISBN: 1557503648

C. Kay Larson
‘Til I Come Marching Home: A Brief History of American Women in World War II
(Pasadena, Md.: The MINERVA Center, 1995)
ISBN: 0963489526

Litoff, Judy Barrett and David C. Smith, Eds.
American Women in a World at War: Contemporary Accounts from World War II.
(Wilmington, DE: SR Books, 1996)
ISBN: 0842025707

Moore, Brenda
To Serve My Country, To Serve My Race: The Story of the Only African American WACs Stationed Overseas During World War II
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(New York University Press, 1996)
ISBN: 0814755224

Noggle, Anne
A Dance with Death: Soviet Airwomen in World War II
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(College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1994)
ISBN: 089096601X

Poulos, Paula Nassen, ed.
A Woman’s War Too: U.S. Women in the Military in World War II 
(Washington, D.C.: National Archives, 1996
ISBN: 1880875098

Slaughter, Jane
Women & the Italian Resistance, 1943-45
( Denver, CO:Arden Press, 1997.)
ISBN: 0912869143

Tomblin, Barbara Brooks
G. I. Nightingales: The Army Nurse Corps in World War II.
1996
ISBN: 0813119510

Weitz, Margaret C.
Sisters In The Resistance: How Women Fought To Free France 1940-1945.
 New York: John Wiley, 1995
ISBN: 0471126764

Wingo, Josette D.
Mother Was a Gunner’s Mate: World War II in the Waves
(Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1994.)
ISBN: 1557509247

Yianilos, Theresa Karas
Woman Marine: A Memoir of a Woman Who Joined the U.S. Marine Corps in World War II to “Free a Marine to Fight”
(La Jolla CA: La Jolla Book Publishing Company, 1994)
ISBN: 0962114243