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"Cutting a New Path": A World War II Navy Nurse Fights Sexism in the Military

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American Social History Project/Center for History and New Media
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Many Pasts (CHNM/ASHP)
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Secondary, Post-secondary
Abstract:

In World War II soldiers, sailors, nurses, and airmen often found themselves thrown together with fellow Americans whose experiences and backgrounds were drastically different from their own. Racial segregation was an official policy of the War Department, but gender discrimination was a subtler, if no less troublesome, social constraint. Doris Brander, who enlisted shortly after Pearl Harbor in the navy's Women's Auxiliary Voluntary Expeditionary Service (WAVES), felt that she and her fellow WAVES were rebels, going against the tide of convention and pushing the limits on women's opportunity. In this 1992 interview with Rosetta Kamlowsky, Brander described how she and other women fought the sexism they experienced in the military and strove for gender equality.

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English
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Audio, Text/HTML
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Copyright 1998-2005 American Social History Productions, Inc. All rights reserved.

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