Women's Identities at War: Gender, Motherhood, and Politics in Britain and France During the First World War

by Susan R. Grayzel

Book Overview

There are few moments in history when the division between the sexes seems as "natural" as during wartime: men go off to the "war front," while women stay behind on the "home front." But the very notion of the home front was an invention of the First World War, when, for the first time, "home" and "domestic" became adjectives that modified the military term "front." Such an innovation acknowledged the significant and presumably new contributions of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807848107
• ISBN13: 9780807848104
• Release Date: June 1999
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 9.3"