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- Description
- 1 online resource (xii, 308 pages) : illustrations.
- Summary
- Women of war is an examination of gender modernity using the world's longest established women's military organisation, the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry. These New Women's adoption of martial uniform and military-style training, their inhabiting of public space, their deployment of innovative new technologies such as the motor car, the illustrated press, advertisements and cinematic film and their proactive involvement in the First World War illustrate why the Corps and its socially elite members are a particularly revealing case study of gender modernity. Bringing into dialogue both public and personal representations, it makes a major contribution to the social and cultural history of Britain in the early twentieth century and will appeal to undergraduates, postgraduates and scholars working in the fields of military history, animal studies, trans studies, dress history, sociology of the professions, nursing history and transport history.
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- Cultural history of modern war
- Uniform Title
- Women of war (Online)
- Cultural history of modern war.
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- Women of war (Online)
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- Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-297) and index.
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- Access restricted to authorized users.
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- Description based on print version record.
- Contents
- Introduction. Daughters of war : gender modernity and the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry -- 'Fresh laurels for the brow of womanhood' : the formation of a female nursing yeomanry -- 'Hussies', 'freaks' and 'lady soldiers' : constructing the uniformed woman -- 'Determined women full of initiative and vision' : the professionalisation of a voluntary women's corps -- 'Here we were, girls of the twentieth century' : active service in the First World War -- 'Gloried in her grotesque and spurious manhood' : driving in the First World War.
- OCLC
- ssj0002413576
- Author
Pattinson, Juliette.
- Title
Women of war [electronic resource] Gender, modernity and the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry / Juliette Pattinson.
- Imprint
Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2020
- Series
Cultural history of modern war
Cultural history of modern war.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-297) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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Print version: 9781526145659