TY  - BOOK
AU  - Weiss,Elaine F.
TI  - Fruits of victory: the Woman's Land Army of America in the Great War 
SN  - 9781597972734 (hardcover : alk. paper) :
AV  - D639.W7 W45 2008
U1  - 940.3/73082 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Washington, D.C.
PB  - Potomac Books
KW  - Women's Land Army of America
KW  - History
KW  - World War, 1914-1918
KW  - Women
KW  - United States
KW  - War work
KW  - Participation, Female
KW  - Food supply
KW  - Economic aspects
KW  - Women farmers
KW  - 20th century
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-306) and index; Liberty Day -- The girl with a hoe behind the man with a gun. The right to serve : a British Land Army ; Female preparedness ; An agricultural army ; Suffrage agriculture ; Soil sisters ; A feminine invasion of the land : the Bedford Camp ; Farmerettes abd Hoover Helpers : Fall 1917 ; Women on the land ; A hysterical appeal ; A fine propaganda : the Fair Farmerette and her publicity machine ; Enlist now! -- The Patriot Farmerette. In bifurcated garb of toil : California ; Hortense Powdermaker in Maryland ; Cultivating the soothing weed : Connecticut ; Libertyville : Illinois ; Girls who thought potatoes grew on trees : New England ; The Farmerette in Wanamaker's window : selling the Land Army in New Jersey ; Georgia cotton ; Harsh terrain ; Miss Diehl and the Wellesley Experiment Station ; Tiller, planter, gleaner : New York ; Marriage of convenience ; A hungry world ;Carry on ; Farmerette redux : 1919 and beyond
ER  -