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This lively collection of essays showcases recent research into the
impact of the conflict on British women during the First World War
and since. Looking outside of the familiar representations of
wartime women as nurses, munitionettes, and land girls, it
introduces the reader to lesser-known aspects of women's war
experience, including female composers' musical responses to the
war, changes in the culture of women's mourning dress, and the
complex relationships between war, motherhood, and politics.
Written during the war's centenary, the chapters also consider the
gendered nature of war memory in Britain, exploring the emotional
legacies of the conflict today, and the place of women's wartime
stories on the contemporary stage. The collection brings together
work by emerging and established scholars contributing to the
shared project of rewriting British women's history of the First
World War. It is an essential text for anyone researching or
studying this history. This book was originally published as a
special issue of Women's History Review.
This lively collection of essays showcases recent research into the
impact of the conflict on British women during the First World War
and since. Looking outside of the familiar representations of
wartime women as nurses, munitionettes, and land girls, it
introduces the reader to lesser-known aspects of women's war
experience, including female composers' musical responses to the
war, changes in the culture of women's mourning dress, and the
complex relationships between war, motherhood, and politics.
Written during the war's centenary, the chapters also consider the
gendered nature of war memory in Britain, exploring the emotional
legacies of the conflict today, and the place of women's wartime
stories on the contemporary stage. The collection brings together
work by emerging and established scholars contributing to the
shared project of rewriting British women's history of the First
World War. It is an essential text for anyone researching or
studying this history. This book was originally published as a
special issue of Women's History Review.
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Lightyear (Paperback)
Alison Fell; Photographs by Ivan Coleman
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R246
Discovery Miles 2 460
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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This clever bit of literary mischief is an "exquisite, exuberant,
X-rated" ("Mirabella") novel about an imaginary eleventh-century
Japanese writer. Onogoro, poet and concubine of the general
Motosuke, hides a stable boy behind the screen at the head of her
bed to spice up her love life with her master.
At 30, Will is the epitome of the New Man: successful, a skilled
mountaineer, happy in his equal and open marriage. Then he falls in
love with Kathleen, and his charmed life begins to fall apart as he
discovers the strength of their passion and his inability to
control it.
The concept of motherhood emerges strongly in the writings of
Simone de Beauvoir, Violette Leduc and Annie Ernaux, whose work is
examined here in the light of current debates about women's
reproductive function and the longstanding glorification of the
mere au foyer in France, driven by fear of a falling population. In
this interdisciplinary study of twentieth-century French women's
writing, Fell uncovers tensions at the heart of the literary
critique. She shows these authors challenging the patriarchal view
of motherhood as the sole justification for a woman's existence
while at the same time confronting the conflict inherent in their
relationship with their own mothers. A survey of theoretical and
historical material demonstrates vividly that the changing concept
of motherhood remains a problematic and highly contentious issue
for French feminists, whether writing in 1940 or 1999.
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