British Women's Histories of the First World War: Representing, Remembering, Rewriting

ISBN-13: 9780367333201 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 132 str.

Maggie Andrews; Alison Fell; Lucy Noakes

Opis

This lively collection of essays showcases recent research into the impact of the conflict on British women during the First World War and since. This book was originally published as a special issue of Women’s History Review.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Representing, Remembering and Rewriting Women’s Histories of the First World War  2. The Carer, the Combatant and the Clandestine: images of women in the First World War in War Illustrated magazine  3. Suffragettes and the Scottish Press during the First World War  4. Antimilitarism, Citizenship and Motherhood: the formation and early years of the Women’s International League (WIL), 1915–1919  5. ‘Giddy Girls’, ‘Scandalous Statements’ and a ‘Burst Bubble’: the war babies panic of 1914–1915  6. ‘A Matter of Individual Opinion and Feeling’: The changing culture of mourning dress in the First World War  7. Gendered musical responses to First World War experiences  8. ‘My Husband is Interested in War Generally’: gender, family history and the emotional legacies of total war  9. What the Women Did: remembering or reducing women of the First World War on the contemporary British stage