More than five thousand American civilian men, women, and children living in the Philippines during World War II were confined to internment camps. Captured tells the story of daily life in five different camps - the crowded housing, mounting familial and international tensions, heavy labour, and increasingly severe malnourishment.
Cogan identifies an ideal of femininity she calls the "Real Woman," who appeared in the popular reading of middle-class America from 1842 to 1880 and existed in advice books and manuals, as well as in magazine short stories as characters who were neither idle nor militant.
Prenumerera på vårt nyhetsbrev för att få fantastiska erbjudanden och inspiration för din nästa läsning.
Genom att registrera dig accepterar du vår personuppgiftspolicy.
