Women's history folks: Best article or chapter-length readings about women in WWI, the Great Depression, and/or WWII? (for lower-division survey purposes)

The 2010 Textile History article on women’s use of uniform dress before and during WWI is really excellent. Barton and Vining “Cutting a New Pattern” 41:Sup1

Perhaps One Third of a Nation: Lorena Hickock Reports on the Great Depression?

Ch's from Maurine Weiner Greenwald, Women, War, & Work

I’d have a look at the chapters in Bonnie Smith’s Women in World History 1450 - Present. Clear, concise, and provides a lot of avenues for discussion. I also really like how she writes.

Belinda Davis has published on German women, bread lines, and protest politics in WWI Germany.

Elizabeth Cobbs’ The Hello Girls is very teachable (WWI) and you can pick almost any chapter depending on what you want to emphasize bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

The Hello Girls: America's First Women Soldiers a book by Elizabeth Cobbs

In 1918, the U.S. Army Signal Corps sent 223 women to France at General Pershing's explicit request. They were masters of the latest technology: the telephone switchboard. While suffragettes picketed ...