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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Emily Yellin. Our Mothers' War: American Women at Home and at the Front During World War II. New York: Free Press. 2004. Pp. xiv, 447. $26.00.

Inspired by her mother's diary, letters, and photographs from World War II, Emily Yellin has produced a monumental account of women's contributions to that war. In recent years, SR Books (Judy Barrett Litoff, ed., American Women in a World at War: Contemporary Accounts from World War II [1996]), Reader's Digest (Brenda Ralph Lewis, Women at War: The Women in World War II, at Home, at Work, on the Front Line [2002]), and Facts on File (Doris Weatherford, American Women and World War II [1990]) have published texts on women in World War II, but none is as comprehensive as Yellin's book. While others have discussed women on the home front, in industry, in the military, or a combination of those, few if any, have included women in all areas of American society. Yellin has examples of women war workers, wives, volunteers, spies, servicewomen, protestors, prostitutes, professionals, nurses, farm workers, and entertainers, among others. In addition she records accounts of women's groups, African American women, Japanese internees, and Los Alamos residents. To address all groups of women, Yellin divides the book into chapters by type of service, position, or the occupation that the women held/completed during World War II.

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