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Despite acts of female heroism, popular memory, as well as official
memorialization in monuments and historic sites, has ignored French
women's role in the First World War. This book explores stories
that were never told and why they were not. These include the
experiences of French women in the war, the stories they themselves
told about these experiences and how French society interpreted
them.The author examines the ways French women served their country
- from charity work, nursing and munitions manufacture to
volunteering for military service and espionage. In tracing stories
about war heroines, but also about villainesses like Mata Hari,
this fascinating study shows what these stories reveal about French
understanding of the war, their hopes and fears for the future.
While the masculine war story was unitary and unchanging, the
feminine story was multiple and shifting. Initially praised for
their voluntary mobilization, women's claims of patriotism were
undercut by criticisms as the war bogged down in the trenches. Were
nurses giving solace or seeking romance? Were munitions workers
patriots or profiteers? The prosecutions of Mata Hari for espionage
and Hel'ne Brion for subversion show how attitudes to women's claim
of patriotism changed. French women's relationship to the war
called into question ideas about gender, definitions of citizenship
and national identity.This book is the first study of women at war
to treat both their experiences and its representations, which
shaped nationalism, war and gender for the rest of the twentieth
century. It makes an important contribution to the burgeoning
history of collective memory and of the First World War.
Despite acts of female heroism, popular memory, as well as official
memorialization in monuments and historic sites, has ignored French
women's role in the First World War. This book explores stories
that were never told and why they were not. These include the
experiences of French women in the war, the stories they themselves
told about these experiences and how French society interpreted
them.
The author examines the ways French women served their country -
from charity work, nursing and munitions manufacture to
volunteering for military service and espionage. In tracing stories
about war heroines, but also about villainesses like Mata Hari,
this fascinating study shows what these stories reveal about French
understanding of the war, their hopes and fears for the future.
While the masculine war story was unitary and unchanging, the
feminine story was multiple and shifting. Initially praised for
their voluntary mobilization, women's claims of patriotism were
undercut by criticisms as the war bogged down in the trenches. Were
nurses giving solace or seeking romance? Were munitions workers
patriots or profiteers? The prosecutions of Mata Hari for espionage
and HEl'ne Brion for subversion show how attitudes to women's claim
of patriotism changed. French women's relationship to the war
called into question ideas about gender, definitions of citizenship
and national identity.
This book is the first study of women at war to treat both their
experiences and its representations, which shaped nationalism, war
and gender for the rest of the twentieth century. It makes an
important contribution to the burgeoning history of collective
memory and of the First World War.
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