Author: Mark J. Crowley
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 2021
Total Pages: 245
ISBN-13: 1783275871
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Using a very wide range of detailed sources, the book surveys the many different experiences of women during the Second World War.
Author: Fionnuala Walsh
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-07-16
Total Pages: 267
ISBN-13: 1108491200
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The first full-length study to explore the impact of the Great War on the lives of women in Ireland. Fionnuala Walsh examines women's mobilisation for the war effort, and the impact of the war on their employment opportunities, family and domestic life, social morality and politicisation.
Author: Lettie Gavin
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Published: 2011-05-18
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 1457109409
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Interweaving personal stories with historical photos and background, this lively account documents the history of the more than 40,000 women who served in relief and military duty during World War I. Through personal interviews and excerpts from diaries, letters, and memoirs, Lettie Gavin relates poignant stories of women's wartime experiences and provides a unique perspective on their progress in military service. American Women in World War I captures the spirit of these determined patriots and their times for every reader and will be of special interest to military, women's, and social historians.
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Publisher: Virago
Published: 1999-11-04
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9781860495595
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Joyce Marlow presents a fascinating and varied collection of women's writing on the Great War drawn from diaries, newspapers, letters and memoirs from across Europe and the States. Starting with material from 1914, she outlines the pre-war campaigns for suffrage and then the demand from women eager to be counted amongst those in action. Contemporary accounts and reports describe their experience on the field and reactions to women in completely new areas, such as surgery as well as on the home front. The words of women in the UK, America, France and Germany display a side to the war rarely seen. Familiar voices such as those of Vera Brittain, Millicent Fawcett, May Sinclair, Alexandra Kollontai, the Pankhurst family and Beatrice Webb, as well as the unknown, make this anthology a truly indispensable guide to the female experience of a war after which women's lives would never be the same.
Author: Margaret R. Higonnet
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1987-01-01
Total Pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9780300044294
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Essays analyze the two world wars in respect to gender politics and reassesses the differences between men and women in relation to war
Author: Susan R. Grayzel
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 0190271078
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The centenary of the First World War in 2014-18 offers an opportunity to reflect upon the role of gender history in shaping our understanding of this pivotal international event. From the moment of its outbreak, the gendered experiences of the war have been seen by contemporary observers and postwar commentators and scholars as being especially significant for shaping how the war can and must be understood. The negotiating of ideas about gender by women and men across vast reaches of the globe characterizes this modern, instrumental conflict. Over the past twenty-five years, as the scholarship on gender and this war has grown, there has never been a forum such as the one presented here that placed so many of the varying threads of this complex historiography into conversation with one another in a manner that is at once accessible and provocative. Given the vast literature on the war itself, scholarship on gender and various themes and topics provides students as well as scholars with a chance to think not only about the subject of the war but also the methodological implications of how historians have approached it. While many studies have addressed the national or transnational narrative of women in the war, none address both femininity and masculinity, and the experiences of both women and men across the same geographic scope as the studies presented in this volume.
Author: Claire M. Tylee
Publisher:
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Tylee (U. of Malaga) shows that there does exist an imaginative memory of The Great War that is distinctively women's. She deals with journalism and women war-correspondents, with propaganda and the construction of consciousness, with censorship, pacifism, women's autobiographies and fictionalized w
Author: Louise Mack
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2020-08-15
Total Pages: 170
ISBN-13: 375243922X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Reproduction of the original: A Woman’s Experience in the Great War by Louise Mack
Author: Lynn Dumenil
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2017-02-07
Total Pages: 357
ISBN-13: 1469631229
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In tracing the rise of the modern idea of the American "new woman," Lynn Dumenil examines World War I's surprising impact on women and, in turn, women's impact on the war. Telling the stories of a diverse group of women, including African Americans, dissidents, pacifists, reformers, and industrial workers, Dumenil analyzes both the roadblocks and opportunities they faced. She richly explores the ways in which women helped the United States mobilize for the largest military endeavor in the nation's history. Dumenil shows how women activists staked their claim to loyal citizenship by framing their war work as homefront volunteers, overseas nurses, factory laborers, and support personnel as "the second line of defense." But in assessing the impact of these contributions on traditional gender roles, Dumenil finds that portrayals of these new modern women did not always match with real and enduring change. Extensively researched and drawing upon popular culture sources as well as archival material, The Second Line of Defense offers a comprehensive study of American women and war and frames them in the broader context of the social, cultural, and political history of the era.