Women as Veterans in Britain and France After the First World War

ISBN-13: 9781108444026 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 236 str.

Alison S. Fell

Opis

The legacies service in the First World War had on women's lives and the privileges it afforded some of them.

Recenzje

'An important read for anyone interested in women in military service, veterans and their political influence, or the social impacts of war.' A. A. Nofi, The NYMAS Review

Spis treści

Introduction: back to the front: women as veterans; 1. Women as veterans in the commemorative landscapes of interwar Britain and France; 2. The afterlives of First World War heroines; 3. 'That glorious comradeship': female veteran groups in the 1920s; 4. Writing as a veteran: women's war memoirs; 5. Women's wartime industrial action and the limits of female veteran identity; Conclusion.