Women Aganist the Good War: Conscientious Objection and Gender on the American Home Front, 1941-1947

During World War II, more than 12,000 male conscientious objectors seeking alternatives to military service entered Civilian Public Service to do forestry, soil conservation, or "other work of national importance." But this government-sponsored, church-supported program also attracted some 2,000 women--most of whom were part of Mennonite, Amish, Brethren, or Quaker families with deeply held antiwar beliefs--to 151 alternative service locations across the country. Goossen tells the story of these women against the "good war," women who identified themselves as conscientious objectors. Paperback. University of N. Carolina Pres, 1997. 180 pages.