Mobilizing Woman-Power

About this eBook

Author

Blatch, Harriot Stanton, 1856-1940

Credits

E-text prepared by Debra Storr and Project Gutenberg Distributed Proofreaders

Language

English

LoC Class

D501: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: World War I (1914-1918)

Subject

World War, 1914-1918 -- Women

Category

Text

eBook-No.

10080

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10080

Release Date

November 1, 2003

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.MOBILIZING WOMAN-POWER — HARRIOT STANTON BLATCH — Jeanne d'Arc.--the spirit of the women of the Allies. — MOBILIZING WOMAN-POWER — HARRIOT STANTON BLATCH — TO THE ABLE AND DEVOTED WOMEN OF GREAT BRITAIN AND FRANCE
2. 2.CONTENTS
3. 3.ILLUSTRATIONS
4. 4.FOREWORD
5. 5.I OUR FOE
6. 6.II WINNING THE WAR — They wear the uniforms of the Edinburgh trams and the New York City subway and trolley guards, with pride and purpose.
7. 7.III MOBILIZING WOMEN IN GREAT BRITAIN [2] — Then--the offered service of the Women's Reserve Ambulance Corps in England was spurned. Now--they wear shrapnel helmets while working during the Zeppelin raids.
8. 8.IV MOBILIZING WOMEN IN FRANCE — The French poilu on furlough is put to work harrowing. — Has there ever been anything impossible to French women since the time of Jeanne d'Arc? The fields must be harrowed--they have no horses.
9. 9.V MOBILIZING WOMEN IN GERMANY
10. 10.VI WOMEN OVER THE TOP IN AMERICA — Copyright by Underwood and Underwood The daily round in the Erie Railroad workshops.
11. 11.VII EVE'S PAY ENVELOPE — In the well-lighted factory of the Briggs and Stratton Company, Milwaukee, the girls are comfortably and becomingly garbed for work.
12. 12.VIII POOLING BRAINS — The women of the Motor Corps of the National League for Woman's Service refuting the traditions that women have neither strength nor endurance. — Down the street they come, beginning their pilgrimage of alleviation and succor on the battlefields of France.
13. 13.IX "BUSINESS AS USUAL" — How can business be "as usual" when in Paris there are about 1800 of these small workshops where a woman dips Bengal Fire and grenades into a bath of paraffin!
14. 14.X "AS MOTHER USED TO DO" — Countess de Berkaim and her canteen in the Gare de St. Lazarre, Paris.
15. 15.XI A LAND ARMY — An agricultural unit, in the uniform approved by the Woman's Land Army of America.
16. 16.XII WOMAN'S PART IN SAVING CIVILIZATION — . — A useful blending of Allied women. Miss Kathleen Burke (Scotch) exhibiting the X-ray ambulance equipped by Mrs. Ayrlon (English) and Madame Curie (French)
17. 17.APPENDIX — DOCUMENTS USED IN WOMEN'S WAR-WORK IN ENGLAND AND FRANCE
18. 18.MEDICAL CERTIFICATE — JOINT WOMEN'S V.A.D. DEPARTMENT. Territorial Forces Association. British Red Cross Society. Order of St. John of Jerusalem. DEVONSHIRE HOUSE, PICCADILLY, LONDON. W1. — QUALIFICATIONS of Members of Women's Voluntary Aid Detachments for Nursing Service or General Service.
19. 19.WOMEN'S ARMY AUXILIARY CORPS FORM OF APPLICATION — (Part of the application form used in England by the Women's Land Army.)
20. 20.WOMEN'S LAND ARMY — THE GOVERNMENT PROMISES :--

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