Before the warContradictions and paradoxesWomen's army corps recruitment of nisei womenService in the women's army corpsCommissions in the Army medical corpsThe postwar yearsWacs who entered the Army from Hawaii, December 1944
Brenda L. Moore is an associate professor of sociology at SUNY Buffalo, and is the author of To Serve My Country, To Serve My Race: The Story of the Only African American WACS Stationed Overseas during World War II.
Brenda Moore has given us such an eye-opening look at the
racialized genderings of World War II - the war we think we know so
much about and yet in fact are just beginning to really grasp in
all its complexity. Furthermore, using in-depth narratives and
exploring Japanese American women's pre-war, wartime and post-war
experiences, Moore has reminded us that any war is a heady mix of
state manipulation, popular anxieties and individual women's own
subtle forms of agency. This is a book for right now.
*author of Maneuvers: The International Politics of Militarizing
Women's Lives*
Serving Our Country is a fascinating account of an important story
virtually unknown until now. We are indebted to Brenda Moore for
adding a new and significant chapter to our nation's history.
*Northwestern University*
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