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Protecting the home front : women in civil defense in the early Cold War /
"Comprising 70 percent or more of civil defense workers at the height of the Cold War, American women served as FCDA wardens, nurses, home preparedness advisors, coordinators of mass feeding drills, rescue and emergency management personnel, and in various local, state, regional and national or...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Jefferson, North Carolina :
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers,
[2017]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Women's civil defense prayer
- Preface: "we are going to win"
- Call to duty
- Women's challenge
- Women's partnership and responsibility
- Women's role in civil defense
- Beyond containment
- Gender and the FCDA
- President Harry S Truman and the FCDA
- Katherine Howard: security at home
- Organized support
- Members in good standing
- Pledge for home defense
- The role of women's organizations
- On guard
- Serving the community
- This is civil defense
- The warden's handbook
- Aid and comfort
- Joining the ranks
- Police services
- The nurse in civil defense
- Be prepared
- Home protection and preparedness
- Defense begins at home
- The Home Defense Corps
- Individual and family preparedness
- Out of the kitchen
- Feeding family and the masses
- Emergency mass feeding
- Basic course in mass feeding
- Conclusion: the "home" in home front
- Appendix: selected chapters from civil defense in outline.