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Sharon Ouditt

Fighting Forces, Writing Women

Identity and Ideology in the First World War. Sprachen: Englisch. 22,2 cm / 14,5 cm / 1,8 cm ( B/H/T )
EAN 9781138151529

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260 Seiten
August 2016
Routledge

A fascinating examination of the traumatic nature of women's experience during the First World War, and the ways in which they sought to mediate their attraction to a fixed female identity with their desire for radical social change.

Sharon Ouditt is Lecturer in English and Cultural Studies at The Nottingham Trent University.

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.