1st Edition
Fighting Forces, Writing Women Identity and Ideology in the First World War
By Sharon Ouditt
Copyright 1993
256 Pages
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Routledge
260 Pages
by
Routledge
260 Pages
by
Routledge
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In a period of high idealism, and 'titanic illimitable death' women ofter found themselves longing to play an active role alongside their male compatriots. In this fascinating work, Sharon Ouditt examines the traumatic nature of women's experiences during the Great War, and the complex ideological structures they constructed in order to legitimate their position in the public world of work and... Read more
List of Plates -- Acknowledgements -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 NUNS AND LOVERS: Voluntary Aid Detachment nurses in the First World War -- 2 COUNTRY AND TOWN, AGRICULTURE AND MUNITIONS: The proper lady and the woman worker -- 3 WOMEN AT HOME: Romance or realism? -- 4 REACTIONARY OR REVOLUTIONARY? The maternal pacifist -- 5 WOOLF, WAR AND WRITING: New words, new methods -- CONCLUSION -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Biography
Sharon Ouditt is Lecturer in English and Cultural Studies at The Nottingham Trent University.
