Behind the Lines : Gender and the Two World Wars / Margaret R. Higonnet; Jane Jenson, Sonya Michel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Higonnet, Margaret R., Author.

Contributor:

Jenson, Jane, Editor.

Michel, Sonya, Editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--History--20th century.

Women.

World War, 1914-1918--Women.

World War, 1914-1918.

World War, 1939-1945--Women.

World War, 1939-1945.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (310 p.)

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [1990]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

What effect did the two world wars have on the relations between women and men? Drawing on broad comparative material—from government policy to popular media, poetry and fiction, and personal letters—this book examines the redefinition of gender that occurred in many Western countries during both world wars.“A major addition to the literature on gender relations and war.”—Helena Lewis, Women’s Review of Books“One of the first, and certainly the most exciting, treatments of war as an event of gender politics.”—Choice“A substantial contribution to the social history of this century.”—Anne Summers, Times Literary Supplement“These essays powerfully demonstrate how much the world wars provided battlegrounds not only for nations but for the sexes.”—Michael S. Sherry, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science“A work of lively, engaged scholarship…. This is an important contribution to current debates about war and human identity, war and political reality, war and transformative possibility.”—Jean Bethke Elshtain

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION

Rewriting History

The Double Helix

The New Eve and the Old Adam: Changes in French Women's Condition at the Turn of the Century

Rivers and Sassoon: The Inscription of Male Gender Anxieties

Vera Brittain's Testament(s)

Growing up Banished: A Reading of Anne Frank and Etty Hillesum

More Minerva than Mars: The French Women's Rights Campaign and the First World War

Women's Military Services in First World War Britain

The German Nation's Obligations to the Heroes' Widows of World War I

Redefining Resistance: Women's Activism in Wartime France

American Women and the Discourse of the Democratic Family in World War II

American Women and Industrial Unionism during World War II

Waiting for the Captive Sons of France: Prisoner of War Wives, 1940-1945

Soldier's Heart: Literary Men, Literary Women, and the Great War

"This Is My Rifle, This Is My Gun": World War II and the Blitz on Women

Some Peculiarities of Social Policy concerning Women in Wartime and Postwar Britain

The Liberation and New Rights for French Women

German Women's Memories of World War II

INDEX

CONTRIBUTORS

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 15. Sep 2020)

ISBN:

0-300-15749-5

OCLC:

1076724395