'Gender and warfare in the twentieth century' is a collection of essays that explores the way in which issues of gender impacted upon twentieth-century warfare. A range of specialist contributors provide exciting, accessible and very readable essays covering a range of wars and textual media.
'Gender and warfare in the twentieth century' is a collection of essays that explores the way in which issues of gender impacted upon twentieth-century warfare. A range of specialist contributors provide exciting, accessible and very readable essays covering a range of wars and textual media.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Angela K. Smith is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Plymouth
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List of contributors Acknowledgements Introduction 1. 'What part have I now that you have come together?' Richard Aldington on war, gender and textual representation Caroline Zilboorg 2. Shell shocked in Somerville: Vera Brittain's post traumatic stress disorder Andrea Peterson 3. Gender, war and writing in Aldous Huxley's 'Farcical history of Richard Greenow' Erik Svarny 4. How gender serves Trotskyism: The Spanish civil war in Ken Loach's 'Land and Freedom' Alan Munton 5. Clothes and uniform in the theatre of Facism: Clemence Dane and Virginia Woolf Jenny Hartley 6. Women and the Battle of the Atlantic 1939 45: Contemporary texts, propaganda and life writing G.H. Bennett 7. 'The best disguise': Performing femininities for clandestine purposes during the Second World War Juliette Pattinson 8. The war at home: Family, gender and post colonial issues in three Vietnam war texts Marion Gibson 9. Chicken or hawk? Heroism, masculinity and violence in Vietnam war narratives Angela K. Smith 10. Elite women warriors and dog soldiers: Gender adaptations in modern war film Jeff Walsh Select bibliography Index
List of contributors Acknowledgements Introduction 1. 'What part have I now that you have come together?' Richard Aldington on war, gender and textual representation Caroline Zilboorg 2. Shell shocked in Somerville: Vera Brittain's post traumatic stress disorder Andrea Peterson 3. Gender, war and writing in Aldous Huxley's 'Farcical history of Richard Greenow' Erik Svarny 4. How gender serves Trotskyism: The Spanish civil war in Ken Loach's 'Land and Freedom' Alan Munton 5. Clothes and uniform in the theatre of Facism: Clemence Dane and Virginia Woolf Jenny Hartley 6. Women and the Battle of the Atlantic 1939 45: Contemporary texts, propaganda and life writing G.H. Bennett 7. 'The best disguise': Performing femininities for clandestine purposes during the Second World War Juliette Pattinson 8. The war at home: Family, gender and post colonial issues in three Vietnam war texts Marion Gibson 9. Chicken or hawk? Heroism, masculinity and violence in Vietnam war narratives Angela K. Smith 10. Elite women warriors and dog soldiers: Gender adaptations in modern war film Jeff Walsh Select bibliography Index
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