Serving Our Country by Brenda Lee Moore

Serving Our Country by Brenda Lee Moore

Brenda Moore gives us such an eye-opening look at the racialized genderings of World War I--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 prewar, wartime, and postwar experiences, Moore reminds us that any war is a heady mix of state manipulation, popular anxieties, and individual women's own subtle forms of agency. This a book for right now. --Cynthia Enloe, author of Maneuvers: The International Politics of Militarizing Women's Lives Following the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor and America's declaration of war on Japan, the U.S. War Department allowed up to five hundred second-generation, or Nisei, Japanese American women to join the Women's Army Corps and, in smaller numbers, the Army Medical Corps. Through in-depth interviews with surviving Nisei women who enlisted, Brenda L. Moore provides fascinating firsthand accounts of their service. Interested primarily in shedding light on the service of Nisei women during the war, the author argues for the relevance of these experiences to larger questions of American race relations and views on gender and their intersections, particularly in the country's highly charged wartime atmosphere. Uncovering a page in American history that has been obscured, Moore adds nuance to our understanding of the situation of Japanese Americans during the war. Brenda L. Moore is an associate professor of sociology at the State University of New York at 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 I.

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 complexityFurthermore, 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. -- Cynthia Enloe * 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. -- Charles Moskos * Northwestern University *

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.

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ISBN 13	9780813532783
ISBN 10	0813532787
Title	Serving Our Country
Author	Brenda Lee Moore
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Rutgers University Press
Year published	2003-06-16
Number of pages	232
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