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Girls Don't: A Woman's War in Vietnam (Peace and Conflict Series) Kindle Edition

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The year is 1970; the war in Vietnam is five years from over. The women’s movement is newly resurgent, and feminists are summarily reviled as “libbers.” Inette Miller is one year out of college—a reporter for a small-town newspaper. Her boyfriend gets drafted and is issued orders to Vietnam. Within their few remaining days together, Inette marries her US Army private, determined to accompany him to war.

There are obstacles. All wives of US military are prohibited in country. With the aid of her newspaper’s editor, Miller finagles a one-month work visa and becomes a war reporter. Her newspaper cannot afford life insurance beyond that. After thirty days, she is on her own.

As one of the rare woman war correspondents in Vietnam and the only one also married to an Army soldier, Miller’s experience was pathbreaking. Girls Don’t shines a light on the conflicting motives that drive an ambitious woman of that era and illustrates the schizophrenic struggle between the forces of powerful feminist ideology and the contrarian forces of the world as it was.

Girls Don’t is the story of what happens when a twenty-three-year-old feminist makes her way into the land of machismo. This is a war story, a love story, and an open-hearted confessional within the burgeoning women’s movement, chronicling its demands and its rewards.

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Inette Miller has the distance and detachment of a journalist trained to see the big picture--and the heart of a woman who understands what it is like to be "the other." It is these differing perspectives that make Miller's Vietnam War memoir Girls Don't! so compelling. Miller grew up in a time and place when women were generally expected to marry and have children. A job and a career came second to being a wife and mother. Miller does marry, but largely because in doing so she cango to Vietnam, a journey she makes precisely "because that's not wheregirls were expected to go." Reviewer: author Katya Cengel. Read full review at The New York Journal of Books: nyjournalofbooks.com/book-review/girls-dont-womans-war

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Inette Miller is the author of three previous books. She was an award-winning national and international journalist for twenty years, serving as a war correspondent for Time magazine in Vietnam and Cambodia, and later working as a Capitol Hill and State Department reporter. She is the recipient of Associated Press awards for journalism and has received Virginia Center for the Creative Arts fellowships.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B08FGKH5F7
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Texas Tech University Press (November 26, 2020)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 26, 2020
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 2501 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 258 pages

Best Sellers Rank: #559,218 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #261 in Biographies of Journalists
- #406 in Vietnam War History (Kindle Store)
- #1,013 in Journalist Biographies

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Inette Miller has been a national and international journalist, lecturer, and a writing workshop teacher throughout her life. She has published three memoirs and one collection of personal essays. Each memoir defines a pivotal, transformative life juncture – within late 20th century cultural currents. Her memoirs have been produced as feature film; translated into a half dozen languages; and honored with national awards. She is a member of the Authors Guild. She has a new author's website at: www.InetteMiller.com

Inette lives with her husband, a Native Hawaiian cultural practitioner, on the Island of Kaua’i. She shares a website with him at: www.ReturnVoyage.com.

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dody

Inette brought the war to me

Reviewed in the United States on August 17, 2021

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When I first met Inette over a decade ago she casually said "I was a Vietnam war correspondent" words that went in one ear and out the other at the time as the focus was another book. Having just finished the book I realize now I should have dropped to my knees in honor and gratitude to this amazing woman. Her account of the war took me there. Her writing is succinct and remarkably so clear that you can feel the body bag pressed against her leg, the monsoon rains, the heat and undying motivation for her to tell the story. While decades have passed since this war the book is timely. Timely in the fact that I the division the US is currently experiencing, I believe, started with this war.

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"lucymaeallan"

Fearless Woman - my kind of woma

Reviewed in the United States on January 12, 2022

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Inette was a fearless and determined 21 year old, who went to Viet Nam in 1970 as a civilian to be with her husband, who was drafted. She got a job with Time and had incredible stories about reporting during the Viet Nam war, sadly many were not published by Time as the sr management did not want to publish the realities of the war. Inette is my hero, as I was the same age and had a lot of the same views on being a woman in those times. And now, I found out that we are both from Portland, Oregon and both on Kauai now. The book was immensely interesting and insightful. I give it 5 stars!

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David

Girls Donʻt is Great

Reviewed in the United States on April 4, 2021

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I thoroughly enjoyed reading "Girls Don;t". Even though I wasnʻt drafted and didnʻt serve, many of my friends were and did, The author, Inette Miller, captured what they saw and felt in Vietnam. this is a gripping story.
David Landretti

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Jay Murphy

A truly imbedded report from both a jounalist's and spouse's experiencing the Vietnam war.

Reviewed in the United States on December 13, 2020

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The author ties together all the emotions of being a journalist, soldier's wife and independent woman during her stationing in Vietnam. All done with a fairly unbiased viewpoint, yet so deeply immersed personally.

This book is very grounded in the emotions experienced by the author. Any reader can easily picture themselves entrenched in the chaos of the Vietnam war.

As a contemporary of the author I clearly remember the events taking place at that time; the conflicting emotions, and political upheaval that was pervasive. This book is a worthy effort as the author describes the times and overall angst that made the Vietnam war so much a stain on America's history. I highly recommend adding to your reading list.

Jay Murphy
San Anselmo, CA

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A different POV on Vietnam

Reviewed in the United States on May 20, 2021

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Strikingly different angle on being in Vietnam & Cambodia as things start to go downhill.

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TXLinda

Written in a conservatives view.

Reviewed in the United States on October 18, 2022

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My husband, like so many others, is a Vietnam Vet. He read this book. He is a conservative so the view of the author and his experiences are viewed differently.

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Bruce Henderson

Memoir writing at its finest

Reviewed in the United States on February 1, 2021

This magnum opus is unputdownable. The author was a young newspaper reporter in the 1970s who decided to become a war correspondent so she could follow the man she loved who was shipping out to Vietnam. Wow. What a premise for a present-day movie, only unlike a contrived Hollywood story this one really happened. GIRLS DON'T is a gripping narrative of love and war and journalism in our time, and the reader becomes very involved in the parallel stories told here; hers and his. You care deeply for both of these special people, and so want them to make it. Buckle up. What a ride!

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Elaine Durbach

A humane and feminist perspective

Reviewed in the United States on April 5, 2021

For someone averse to reading about violence and with only a superficial knowledge of the Vietnam War, this book was like a window opening. Though providing horrifyingly vivid descriptions of human suffering and political obtuseness, Inette Miller manages to keep her perspective relatable and entertaining. All these decades later, you can still feel that intrepid 24-year-old's curiosity, frustration and determination to convey the truth. It's all still relevant!

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