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This book brings together a collection of works by scholars who
have produced some of the most innovative and influential work on
the topic of First World War nursing in the last ten years. The
contributors employ an interdisciplinary collaborative approach
that takes into account multiple facets of Allied wartime nursing:
historical contexts (history of the profession, recruitment,
teaching, different national socio-political contexts), popular
cultural stereotypes (in propaganda, popular culture) and
longstanding gender norms (woman-as-nurturer). They draw on a wide
range of hitherto neglected historical sources, including diaries,
novels, letters and material culture. The result is a fully-rounded
new study of nurses' unique and compelling perspectives on the
unprecedented experiences of the First World War.
This book brings together a collection of works by scholars who
have produced some of the most innovative and influential work on
the topic of First World War nursing in the last ten years. The
contributors employ an interdisciplinary collaborative approach
that takes into account multiple facets of Allied wartime nursing:
historical contexts (history of the profession, recruitment,
teaching, different national socio-political contexts), popular
cultural stereotypes (in propaganda, popular culture) and
longstanding gender norms (woman-as-nurturer). They draw on a wide
range of hitherto neglected historical sources, including diaries,
novels, letters and material culture. The result is a fully-rounded
new study of nurses' unique and compelling perspectives on the
unprecedented experiences of the First World War.
French feminism was central to the theory and culture of Second
Wave feminism as an international movement, and 1975 was a key year
for the women's movement in France. Through a critical review of
the politics, activism and cultural creativity of that moment, from
the perspective of both preceding and subsequent 'waves' of
feminism, this book evaluates the legacies of 1975, and their
strengths and limitations as new questions and new conjunctures
have come into play. Edited and written by an international group
of feminist scholars, it offers both a critical re-evaluation of a
vital moment in women's cultural history, and a new analysis of the
relationship between second wave agendas and contemporary feminist
politics and culture.
French feminism was central to the theory and culture of Second
Wave feminism as an international movement, and 1975 was a key year
for the women's movement in France. Through a critical review of
the politics, activism and cultural creativity of that moment, from
the perspective of both preceding and subsequent 'waves' of
feminism, this book evaluates the legacies of 1975, and their
strengths and limitations as new questions and new conjunctures
have come into play. Edited and written by an international group
of feminist scholars, it offers both a critical re-evaluation of a
vital moment in women's cultural history, and a new analysis of the
relationship between second wave agendas and contemporary feminist
politics and culture.
"The Useless Mouths" and Other Literary Writings brings to
English-language readers literary writings--several previously
unknown--by Simone de Beauvoir. Culled from sources including
various American university collections, the works span decades of
Beauvoir's career. Ranging from dramatic works and literary theory
to radio broadcasts, they collectively reveal fresh insights into
Beauvoir's writing process, personal life, and the honing of her
philosophy. The volume begins with a new translation of the 1945
play The Useless Mouths, written in Paris during the Nazi
occupation. Other pieces were discovered after Beauvoir's death in
1986, such as the 1965 short novel "Misunderstanding in Moscow,"
involving an elderly French couple who confront their fears of
aging. Two additional previously unknown texts include the
fragmentary "Notes for a Novel," which contains the seed of what
she later would call "the problem of the Other," and a lecture on
postwar French theater titled Existentialist Theater. The
collection notably includes the eagerly awaited translation of
Beauvoir's contribution to a 1965 debate among Jean-Paul Sartre and
other French writers and intellectuals, "What Can Literature Do?"
Prefaces to well-known works such as Bluebeard and Other Fairy
Tales,La Batarde, and James Joyce in Paris: His Final Years are
also available in English for the first time, alongside essays and
other short articles. A landmark contribution to Beauvoir studies
and French literary studies, the volume includes informative and
engaging introductory essays by prominent and rising scholars.
Contributors are Meryl Altman, Elizabeth Fallaize, Alison S. Fell,
Sarah Gendron, Dennis A. Gilbert, Laura Hengehold, Eleanore
Holveck, Terry Keefe, J. Debbie Mann, Frederick M. Morrison,
Catherine Naji, Justine Sarrot, Liz Stanley, Ursula Tidd, and
Veronique Zaytzeff.
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. The 'veterans' covered by this history include former
nurses, charity workers, secret service agents and members of
resistance networks in occupied territory, as well as members of
the British auxiliary corps. What unites these women is how they
attempted to present themselves as 'female veterans' in order to
gain social advantages and give themselves the right to speak about
the war and its legacies. Alison S. Fell also considers the limits
of the identity of war veteran for women, considering as an example
the wartime and post-war experiences of the female industrial
workers who led episodes of industrial action.
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. The 'veterans' covered by this history include former
nurses, charity workers, secret service agents and members of
resistance networks in occupied territory, as well as members of
the British auxiliary corps. What unites these women is how they
attempted to present themselves as 'female veterans' in order to
gain social advantages and give themselves the right to speak about
the war and its legacies. Alison S. Fell also considers the limits
of the identity of war veteran for women, considering as an example
the wartime and post-war experiences of the female industrial
workers who led episodes of industrial action.
This volume explores contemporary French women's writing through
the prism of one of the defining moments of modern feminism: the
writings of the 1970s that came to be known as "French feminism".
With their exhilarating renewal of the rules of fiction, and a
sophisticated theoretical approach to gender, representation and
textuality, Helene Cixous and others became internationally
recognised for their work, at a time when the women's movement was
also a driving force for social change. Taking its cue from Les
Femmes s'entetent, a multi-authored analysis of the situation of
women and a celebration of women's creativity, this collection
offers new readings of Monique Wittig, Emma Santos and Helene
Cixous, followed by essays on Nina Bouraoui, Michele Perrein and
Ying Chen, Marguerite Duras and Mireille Best, and Valentine Goby.
A contextualising introduction establishes the theoretical and
cultural framework of the volume with a critical re-evaluation of
this key moment in the history of feminist thought and women's
writing, pursuing its various legacies and examining the ways
theoretical and empirical developments in queer studies,
postcolonial studies and postmodernist philosophies have extended,
inflected and challenged feminist work.
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