First Class: Women Join the Ranks at the Naval Academy

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First Class: Women Join the Ranks at the Naval Academy (Bluejacket Books)

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 mental and physical hurdles they had to overcome. Unflinchingly frank, she freely discusses the prejudice and abuse they encountered that often went unpunished or unreported. A loyal Navy supporter, nevertheless, Disher provides a balanced account of life behind the academy's storied walls for that first group of teenaged women who charted the way for future female midshipmen. Lively, well researched, and amazingly good humored, the book seems as fresh today as it was when first published in hardcover in 1998.

Country	USA
Author	Sharon H. Disher
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9781612514291
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Naval Institute Press
Manufacturer	Naval Institute Press
NumberOfPages	378
PublicationDate	2013-07-31
Publisher	Naval Institute Press
ReleaseDate	2013-07-31
Studio	Naval Institute Press

First Class: Women Join the Ranks at the Naval Academy (Bluejacket Books)

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