First Class by Sharon Hanley Disher
In 1976 eighty-one young women entered the U.S. Naval Academy, ending a 131-year all-male tradition. Now, one of those trailblazing women has decided to speak out about their experiences. She draws on journals and letters from the period along with recent interviews to present a dramatic and sometimes disturbing picture of the women's four-year effort to join the academy's elite fraternity and become commissioned naval officers. From the punishing crucible of plebe summer to the triumph of graduation, Sharon Disher focuses on two female members of the Class of 1980, each with very different personalities and experiences. Teenagers faced with issues still unlabeled in the 1970s - sexual harassment, eating disorders, date rape - the two take separate routes in their search for ways to survive the mental and physical challenges of the regimen and the psychological isolation of being a woman in a man's world. Disher is unflinchingly frank in her descriptions of the prejudice and abuse that they frequently encountered and which went mostly unreported and unpunished. A loyal navy supporter nevertheless, Disher offers a balanced account of life behind the academy's storied walls for that first group of women who charted the way for future generations of female midshipmen.-
No Surrender
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Reach for the Sky
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Alone on Guadalcanal
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The Bridge at Dong Ha
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Reminiscences
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Trapped at Pearl Harbor
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Silent Victory
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Torpedo Junction
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Tin Can Sailor
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The Big E
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Take Her Deep
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Around the World Submerged
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Admiral Arleigh (31-Knot) Burke
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Can Do!
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First to Fight
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One Hundred Days
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The Divine Wind
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Midway
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A Sense of Honor
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The Magnificent Mitscher
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Under Two Flags
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PT 105
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Mother Was a Gunner's Mate
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Command of the Seas
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Commander in Chief
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The Pacific War Remembered
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Subchaser
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"Franklin" Comes Home
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The Flight of Leroy Brown
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We Will Stand by You
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Dog Company Six
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The Golden Thirteen
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A Special Valor
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The Return of Philo T. McGiffin
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Back from the Deep
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U-Boat Ace
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Yangtze Patrol
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Tragedy at Honda
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The Faustball Tunnel
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Pre-Astronauts
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Battleship Sailor
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C.S.S. "Shenandoah"
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Secret Missions
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The Ship that Held the Line
Sharon Hanley Disher served in the Navy Civil Engineering Corps for ten years after her 1980 graduation from the Naval Academy, including service as the officer in charge of a construction battalion unit in New London, Connecticut, the second woman in the Navy to hold such a position. She currently resides in Annapolis with her husband and three children.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781591142164 |
| ISBN 10 | 1591142164 |
| Title | First Class |
| Author | Sharon Hanley Disher |
| Series | Bluejacket Bks |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Naval Institute Press |
| Year published | 2013-07-30 |
| Number of pages | 376 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |