| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 88.1

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Book Review

In Uncle Sam's Service: Women Workers with theAmerican Expeditionary Force, 1917–1919. By Susan Zeiger. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999. xii, 211 pp. $37.50, ISBN 0-8014-3166-2.)

Susan Zeiger's purpose in this insightful monograph is to "reinterpret a familiar story," that of the role, public perception, and consequences for women arising from the participation of 16,500 United States women in the American Expeditionary Force (AEF) in World War I. By examining personnel records, army files, oral histories, veterans' questionnaires, letters, and postwar novels written by the women themselves, Zeiger challenges the popular perception that it was elite society women who were the mainstay of the female force in France. Instead, she uncovers and stresses the fact that the majority of AEF service women were white, lower-middle-class, literate, wage-earning women. Zeiger finds them to be an exceptional group, ambitious, unconventional, and eager for experiences previously closed to women. Although altruism and patriotism were factors, historical records reveal that awareness of the opportunities for personal growth was equally important in the decision to enlist. . . .

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