Amy Rutenberg
About the Author
Amy's research focuses on the relationships among war, gender, militarization, and American society in the second half of the twentieth century. Her first book, Rough Draft: Cold War Military Manpower Policy and the Origins of Vietnam-Era Draft Resistance (Cornell University Press, 2019), explores how the policy community’s assumptions about gender, race, class, and the Cold War led it to target working-class and minority men for the draft and middle-class, white men for deferments in the years leading up the Vietnam War. Her work has appeared in Cold War History, The New York Times, and TheAtlantic.com.