Gender and warfare in the twentieth century: Textual representations

✍ Scribed by Angela Smith (editor)

Publisher: Manchester University Press
Year: 2018
Tongue: English
Leaves: 234
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

'Gender and warfare in the twentieth century' is a collection of essays that explores the way in which issues of gender impacted upon twentieth-century warfare. A range of specialist contributors provide exciting, accessible and very readable essays covering a range of wars and textual media.

✦ Table of Contents

Front matter
Contents
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
‘What part have I now that you have come together?’ Richard Aldington on war, gender and textual representation
Shell-shocked in Somerville: Vera Brittain’s post-traumatic stress disorder
Gender, war and writing in Aldous Huxley’s ‘Farcical History of Richard Greenow’
How gender serves Trotskyism: the Spanish Civil War in Ken Loach’s Land and Freedom
Clothes and uniform in the theatre of fascism: Clemence Dane and Virginia Woolf
Women and the battle of the Atlantic 1939-45: contemporary texts, propaganda, and life writing
‘The best disguise’: performing femininities for clandestine purposes during the Second World War
The war at home: family, gender and post-colonial issues in three Vietnam War texts
Chicken or hawk? Heroism, masculinity and violence in Vietnam War narratives
Elite women warriors and dog soldiers: gender adaptations in modern war films
Select bibliography
Index

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