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1 online resource (377 pages) |
| Contents |
Preface; Acknowledgments; Women Graduates of the Class of 1980; Prologue; FOURTH-CLASS YEAR 1976-1977; 1. Induction Day; 2. Plebe Summer, First Set; 3. Plebe Summer, Second Set; 4. Parents' Weekend; 5. Plebe Year, First Semester; 6. Plebe Year, Second Semester; THIRD-CLASS YEAR 1977-1978; 7. Youngster Summer; 8. Youngster Academic Year; SECOND-CLASS YEAR 1978-1979; 9. Second-Class Summer; 10. Second-Class Academic Year; FIRST-CLASS YEAR 1979-1980; 11. First-Class Summer; 12. First-Class Year, First Semester; 13. First-Class Year, Second Semester; 14. Graduation Day; Afterword. |
| Summary |
When Sharon Hanley Disher entered the U.S. Naval Academy with eighty other young women in 1976, she helped end a 131-year all-male tradition at Annapolis. Her entertaining and shocking account of the women's four-year effort to join the academy's elite fraternity and become commissioned naval officers is a valuable chronicle of the times, and her insights have been credited with helping us understand the challenges of integrating women into the military services. From the punishing crucible of plebe summer to the triumph of graduation, she describes their search for ways to survive the me. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
United States Naval Academy.
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United States. Navy -- Women.
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United States Naval Academy. (OCoLC)fst00536948
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United States. Navy. (OCoLC)fst00533204
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Marine & Naval.
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Military Science.
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Armed Forces -- Women.
(OCoLC)fst00814634
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Disher, Sharon H. First Class : Women Join the Ranks at the Naval Academy. New York : Naval Institute Press, ©2013 9781591142164 |
| ISBN |
9781612514291 (electronic bk.) |
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1612514294 (electronic bk.) |
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