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Mobilizing Minerva: American Women in the First World War

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From the 1913 Suffrage Parade in Washington to the struggle for gender equality in the Armed Forces, this book highlights women's efforts to expand civil rights. Unfortunately, this was an era of escalating violence, and as Kimberly Jensen clearly demonstrates, this violence affected women in many ways. Undaunted, they used their collective efforts to shield their vulnerability, heal the wounded, and advance civility. The author shows that during the war, women's service as doctors, nurses, and in the military, advanced their cause of equal citizenship.

I was so excited to hear about and buy this book. Right on the cover is one of the doctors who served in the American Women's Hospitals Service. You can see the AWH (American Women's Hospitals as it was then called)badge on her hat. As current co-chair of the committee that looks after the American Women's Hospitals Service now, I was delighted to read of the work done by our organization in the First World War. Yes, it still goes on, with small grants to clinics all over the world to help medically under-served peoples and increase their access to health care. Founded in 1917 we are coming up to our 95th birthday.