Fighting Forces, Writing Women

Identity and Ideology in the First World War

Sharon Ouditt author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:26th Aug '16

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In a period of high idealism, and 'titanic illimitable death' women ofter found themselves longing to play an active role alongside their male compatriots. In this fascinating work, Sharon Ouditt examines the traumatic nature of women's experiences during the Great War, and the complex ideological structures they constructed in order to legitimate their position in the public world of work and politics. Using a wealth of historical material - contemporary propaganda, journals, magazines, memoirs and fiction - Sharon Ouditt challenges the notion that women achieved sudden and unproblematic independence, and demonstrates the ways in which women mediated their attraction to a fixed female identity with their desire for radical social change.

ISBN: 9781138151529

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 453g

260 pages