TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cobbs,Elizabeth
TI  - The Hello Girls: America's First Women Soldiers 
SN  - 9780674971479
AV  - D639.T4 C63 2017eb
U1  - 940.4/173082 23
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - Cambridge, MA : 
PB  - Harvard University Press, 
KW  - Sex discrimination against women
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Telephone operators
KW  - Women soldiers
KW  - Legal status, laws, etc
KW  - Women veterans
KW  - Women
KW  - Suffrage
KW  - World War, 1914-1918
KW  - Communications
KW  - Participation, Female
KW  - Regimental histories
KW  - HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; Prologue --; 1. America's Last Citizens --; 2. Neutrality Defeated, and the Telephone in War and Peace --; 3. Looking for Soldiers and Finding Women --; 4. We're Going Over --; 5. Pack Your Kit --; 6. Wilson Adopts Suffrage, and the Signal Corps Embarks --; 7. Americans Find Their Way, Over There --; 8. Better Late Than Never on the Marne --; 9. Wilson Fights for Democracy at Home --; 10. Together in the Crisis of Meuse- Argonne --; 11. Peace without Their Victory Medals --; 12. Soldiering Forward in the Twentieth Century --; Epilogue --; NOTES --; Acknowledgments --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - In 1918 the U.S. Army Signal Corps sent 223 women to France to help win World War I. Elizabeth Cobbs reveals the challenges these patriotic young women faced in a war zone where male soldiers resented, wooed, mocked, saluted, and ultimately celebrated them. Back on the home front, they fought the army for veterans' benefits and medals, and won
UR  - https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674978591
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