Mobilizing Minerva: American Women in the First World War by Kimberly Jensen

Preface: "Mobilizing Woman Power" in the First World War     vii
Acknowledgments     xv
Prelude: The Washington, D.C., Suffrage Parade of 1913     1
Negotiating Gender and Citizenship: Context for the First World War     11
Gender and Violence: Context and Experience in the Era of the World War     21
"Whether We Vote or Not-We Are Going to Shoot": Women and Armed Defense on the Home Front     36
"The Fighting, Biting, and Scratching Kind": Good Girls, Bad Girls, and Women's Soldiering     60
Uncle Sam's Loyal Nieces: Women Physicians, Citizenship, and Wartime Military Service     77
Helping Women Who Pay the "Rapacious Price" of War: Women's Medical Units in France     98
A Base Hospital Is Not a Coney Island Dance Hall: Nurses, Citizenship, Hostile Work Environment, and Military Rank     116
"Danger Ahead for the Country": Civic Roles and Safety for the Consumer-Civilian in Postwar America     142
Conclusion     165
Notes     177
Bibliography     209
Index     231