Slacks and Calluses: Our Summer in a Bomber Factory - Softcover

Críticas

"[A] rare contemporaneous account. . . . [Bowman and Allen] wandered into a mostly male world of wrenches and rivets, forever changing society's view of what women could and should do. . . .Wide-eyed and witty."--San Diego Union-Tribune

"An enjoyable book, a smooth read, a vibrant reminder of a time of near-unanimous citizen support for American political strategies and goals. It harkens from an era when the myth of 'one America' still held sway. It is also a tale of two women negotiating gender, identity, autonomy and cross-class insights. Fifty-six years later, readers are fortunate the authors put pencil to paper each night upon their return home from the bomber factory. Theirs is a story worth hearing and remembering." --The Journal of San Diego History

Reseña del editor

Two teachers recall the summer of 1943 spent building bombers for the war effort, learning to deal with a wide variety of people, endure life in a factory, and negotiate the tricky new relationships between genders in this formerly male-dominated setting. Original.