Women of war examines the FANY as a case study of gender modernity using newspapers, memoirs, diaries, letters interviews, photographs and poetry. While these New Women challenged the limits of convention in terms of behaviour, dress and role, they were simulataneously deepy conservative, upholding imperialist, unionist and anti-feminist values.
Women of war examines the FANY as a case study of gender modernity using newspapers, memoirs, diaries, letters interviews, photographs and poetry. While these New Women challenged the limits of convention in terms of behaviour, dress and role, they were simulataneously deepy conservative, upholding imperialist, unionist and anti-feminist values.
Juliette Pattinson is Reader in History at the University of Kent
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction: Daughters of war - Gender modernity and the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry 1 'Fresh laurels for the brow of womanhood': The formation of a female nursing yeomanry 2 'Hussies', 'freaks' and 'lady soldiers': Constructing the uniformed woman 3 'Determined women full of initiative and vision': The professionalisation of a voluntary women's corps 4 'Here we were, girls of the twentieth century': Active service in the First World War 5 'Gloried in her grotesque and spurious manhood': Driving in the First World War Concluding thoughts Bibliography Index
Introduction: Daughters of war - Gender modernity and the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry 1 'Fresh laurels for the brow of womanhood': The formation of a female nursing yeomanry 2 'Hussies', 'freaks' and 'lady soldiers': Constructing the uniformed woman 3 'Determined women full of initiative and vision': The professionalisation of a voluntary women's corps 4 'Here we were, girls of the twentieth century': Active service in the First World War 5 'Gloried in her grotesque and spurious manhood': Driving in the First World War Concluding thoughts Bibliography Index
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