the rise and fall of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs) of World War II
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Merryman, Molly
- Publish Year
- 1998
- Shelfmark
- GR BR 1G 1998 - B
- Thesaurus
- krijgsmacht, piloten, militaire beroepen, tweede wereldoorlog, Verenigde Staten, 20e eeuw
- Description
- This book examines the accomplishments and struggles of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs) of World War II, their service, and premature disbandment, and how they finally got some recognition. The events, perceptions, and opininons that culminated in the disbandment of the WASPs are contextualized within theories of feminist history and gender construction in order to reveal how cultural constructions of gender, specifically assumptions about the roles of women in war, impacted the fate of the 1,074 pilots, who were the first women in the United States to fly military planes.