War Girls shares the stories of the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (FANY), a group of audacious middle- and upper-class British women volunteers who nursed and worked as driver-mechanics during the First World War. It explores the ways the women subverted traditional mythologies about gender and imagined new cultural possibilities
War Girls shares the stories of the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (FANY), a group of audacious middle- and upper-class British women volunteers who nursed and worked as driver-mechanics during the First World War. It explores the ways the women subverted traditional mythologies about gender and imagined new cultural possibilities
Janet Lee is Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Oregon State University.
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Introduction I. Aristocratic amazons in arms: The founding of the FANY 1907-14 2. The great adventures begin: Grace Ashley-Smith in Belgium Autumn 1914 3. Band of Hope: FANY with the Belgians at Lamarck Hospital 1914-15 4. Not a woman, but a FANY: Working for the British in Calais 1916 5. Progression is our watchword: The Belgian Convoy and Port à Binson Priory hospital 1917 6. Petticoat warriors: The French units and the convoy at St Omer 1917-18 7. Esprit de corps: FANY service after the Armistice 1918-19 Postscript Index
Introduction I. Aristocratic amazons in arms: The founding of the FANY 1907-14 2. The great adventures begin: Grace Ashley-Smith in Belgium Autumn 1914 3. Band of Hope: FANY with the Belgians at Lamarck Hospital 1914-15 4. Not a woman, but a FANY: Working for the British in Calais 1916 5. Progression is our watchword: The Belgian Convoy and Port à Binson Priory hospital 1917 6. Petticoat warriors: The French units and the convoy at St Omer 1917-18 7. Esprit de corps: FANY service after the Armistice 1918-19 Postscript Index
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