Gender and Warfare in the Twentieth Century - Textual Representations

Informationen zum Autor Angela K. Smith is Lecturer in English at the University of Plymouth Klappentext '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. Zusammenfassung '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. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis List of contributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction1. 'What part have I now that you have come together?' Richard Aldington on war, gender and textual representation - Caroline Zilboorg2. Shell-shocked in Somerville: Vera Brittain's post-traumatic stress disorder - Andrea Peterson3. Gender, war and writing in Aldous Huxley's 'Farcical history of Richard Greenow' - Erik Svarny4. How gender serves Trotskyism: The Spanish civil war in Ken Loach's 'Land and Freedom' - Alan Munton5. Clothes and uniform in the theatre of Facism: Clemence Dane and Virginia Woolf - Jenny Hartley6. Women and the Battle of the Atlantic 1939-45: Contemporary texts, propaganda and life-writing - G.H. Bennett7. 'The best disguise': Performing femininities for clandestine purposes during the Second World War - Juliette Pattinson8. The war at home: Family, gender and post-colonial issues in three Vietnam war texts - Marion Gibson9. Chicken or hawk? Heroism, masculinity and violence in Vietnam war narratives - Angela K. Smith10. Elite women warriors and dog soldiers: Gender adaptations in modern war film - Jeff WalshSelect bibliographyIndex

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• Authors: Angela Smith, Angela K Smith, Angela K. Smith, Ms. Angela Smith, Ms. Angela K. Smith
• Assisted by: Angela Smith (Editor), Angela K Smith (Editor), Angela K. Smith (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2013
• EAN: 9780719065750
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-6575-0
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Gender Identity