We Are a College at War: Women Working for Victory in World War II

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We Are a College at War: Women Working for Victory in World War II. By Mary Weaks-Baxter, Christine Bruun, and Catherine Forslund. (Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 2010. Pp. xvi, 236, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $29.95.)

Rockford College, a small liberal arts school in Rockford, Illinois, provides a unique window onto women's wartime activities and the impact of World War II on American higher education. The authors, all Rockford College faculty members, argue that the one-time women's college embraced the legacy of Jane Addams - Hull House founder, Nobel Peace Prize winner, and Rockford alumna - to nurture among students a gendered but nonetheless …