Minerva’s Bookstore Nonfiction Selections

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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. (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 BreechesWomen 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. (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, 1997)
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=6124151034

World War I


Gavin, Lettie, American Women in World War I: They Also Served (Niwot, Co: University of Colorado Press, 1997)
ISBN 087081-432-X

 


Klein, Yvonne M., ed., Beyond the Home Front: Women’s
Autobiographical Writing of the Two World Wars
. (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
. (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
. (New
York University Press, 1996)
ISBN: 0814755224


Noggle, Anne, A Dance with Death: Soviet Airwomen in World War II .(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