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World War, 1914-1918 -- Women.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Women.
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Women -- History -- 20th century.
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Descript |
1 online resource (viii, 310 pages) : illustrations. |
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online resource cr |
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Contents |
Rewriting history / Joan W. Scott -- The double helix / Margaret R. Higonnet and Patrice L.-R. Higonnet -- The new Eve and the old Adam: French women's condition at the turn of the century / Michelle Perrot -- Rivers and Sassoon: the inscription of male gender anxieties / Elaine Showalter -- Vera Brittain's Testament(s) / Lynne Layton -- Growing up banished: a reading of Anne Frank and Ette Hillesum / Yasmine Ergas -- More Minerva than Mars: the French women's rights campaign and the First World War / Steven C. Hause -- Women's military services in the First World War Britain / Jenny Gould -- The German nation's obligation to the heroes' widows of world War I / Karin Hausen -- Redefining resistance: women's activism in wartime France / Paula Schwartz -- American women and the discourse of the democratic family in World War II / Sonya Michel -- American women and industrial unionism during world War II / Ruth Milkman -- Waiting for the captive sons of France: prisoner of war wives, 1940-1945 / Sarah Fishman -- Soldier's heart: literary men, literary women and the Great War / Sandra M. Gilbert -- "This is my rifle, this is my gun": World War II and the blitz on women / Susan Gubar -- Some peculiarities of social policy concerning women in wartime and postwar Britain / Denise Riley -- The liberation and new rights for French women / Jane Jenson -- German women's memories of World War II / Annemarie Tröger. |
Alt author |
Higonnet, Margaret R., editor.
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ISBN |
9780300157499 (electronic book) |
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0300157495 (electronic book) |
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0300036876 (cloth) |
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9780300036879 (cloth) |
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0300044291 (paperback) |
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9780300044294 (paperback) |
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