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The Women's Land Army in First World War Britain / by B. White.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- White, B., Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Great Britain--History.
- Great Britain.
- Social history.
- Military history.
- History, Modern.
- History of World War II and the Holocaust.
- History of Britain and Ireland.
- Social History.
- Military History.
- Modern History.
- Local Subjects:
- History of World War II and the Holocaust.
- History of Britain and Ireland.
- Social History.
- Military History.
- Modern History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (218 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2014.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Between 1917 and 1919 women enlisted in the Women's Land Army, a national organisation with the task of increasing domestic food production. Behind the scenes organisers laboured to not only recruit an army of women workers, but to also dispel public fears that Britain's Land Girls would be defeminized and devalued by their wartime experiences.
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Answering the Call: The Formation of the Women's Land Army; 2 Female Preparedness, Male Authority: Organisers and the Board of Agriculture; 3 Gender, Service, Patriotism: Promoting the Land Army in Wartime Britain; 4 'The Lasses Are Massing': The Land Army in England and Wales; 5 'Respectable Women': The Land Army in Scotland; 6 Back to the Land: The Land Army after 1918; Conclusion; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781349473144
- 1349473146
- 9781137363893
- 1137363894
- 9781137363909
- 1137363908
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