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Women as veterans in Britain and France after the First World War / Alison S. Fell.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fell, Alison S., 1971- author.
- Series:
- Studies in the social and cultural history of modern warfare
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women veterans--Great Britain.
- Women veterans.
- Women veterans--France.
- World War, 1914-1918--Participation, Female.
- World War, 1914-1918.
- Women veterans--Great Britain--Social conditions.
- Women veterans--France--Social conditions.
- Women--Identity.
- Women.
- Military participation--Female.
- Social conditions.
- France.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 226 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
- Summary:
- "This is the story of how women in France and Britain between 1915 and 1933 appropriated the cultural identity of female war veteran in order to have greater access to public life and a voice in a political climate in which women were rarely heard on the public stage"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Women as veterans in the commemorative landscapes of interwar Britain and France
- The afterlives of First World War heroines
- 'That glorious comradeship' : female veteran groups in the 1920s
- Writing as a veteran : women's war memoirs
- Women's wartime industrial action and the limits of female veteran identity.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781108425766
- 1108425763
- OCLC:
- 1024214785
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