Imagine a more controversial Rosie the Riveter--a generation older and more outlandish for her time.
She is a frequent correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor..
Weiss is a journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times, Atlantic Monthly, Harper\'s, the Boston Globe, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and on National Public Radio.
About the Author: Elaine F.
The dramatic story of the WLA is vividly retold here using long-buried archival material, allowing a fascinating chapter of America\'s World War I experience to be rediscovered.
The WLA\'s short but spirited life foreshadowed some of the most significant social issues of the twentieth century: women\'s changing roles, the problem of class distinctions in a democracy, and the physiological and psychological differences between men and women.
Despite their initial skepticism, farmers became the WLA\'s loudest champions, and the farmerette was celebrated as an icon of American women\'s patriotism and pluck.
It insisted on fair labor practices and pay equal to male laborers\' wages for its workers and taught women not only agricultural skills but also leadership and management techniques.
The Land Army was a civilian enterprise organized and financed by women.
These women, from all social and economic strata, lived together in communal camps and did what was considered "men\'s work" plowing fields, driving tractors, planting, harvesting, and hauling lumber.
From 1917 to 1920 the WLA sent more than twenty thousand urban women into rural America to take over farm work after the men went off to war and food shortages threatened the nation.
She was the "farmerette" of the Woman\'s Land Army of America (WLA), doing a man\'s job on the home front during World War I.
Imagine a more controversial Rosie the Riveter--a generation older and more outlandish for her time
