Women As Veterans in Britain and France After the First World War

The legacies service in the First World War had on women's lives and the privileges it afforded some of them.

List of contents

Introduction: back to the front: women as veterans; 1. Women as veterans in the commemorative landscapes of interwar Britain and France; 2. The afterlives of First World War heroines; 3. 'That glorious comradeship': female veteran groups in the 1920s; 4. Writing as a veteran: women's war memoirs; 5. Women's wartime industrial action and the limits of female veteran identity; Conclusion.

About the author

Alison S. Fell is Professor of French Cultural History at the University of Leeds and Director of the Leeds Humanities Research Centre. She is Co-Investigator of the Gateways to the First World War AHRC First World Public Engagement Centre. She regularly acts as a historical consultant and interviewee for television and radio, including the Woman's Hour drama The Camel Hospital and the BBC's The World's War: Forgotten Soldiers of Empire.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Alison S. Fell, Alison S. (University of Leeds) Fell, Fell Alison S.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2018
• EAN: 9781108425766
• ISBN: 978-1-108-42576-6
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare; Studies in the Social and Cult; Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; France, European History, First World War, HISTORY / Military / General, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, c 1910 to c 1919, c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1), History and Archaeology