Description
Book SynopsisThis multidisciplinary collection fills a gap in First World War scholarship, revealing the diversity and richness of women’s and girls’ wartime experiences in Canada and Newfoundland.
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Transformation in a Time of War? / Sarah Glassford and Amy Shaw
Part 1: Mobilizing Women
1 “In Defense of the Empire”: The Six Nations of the Grand River and the Great War / Alison Norman
2 The Unquiet Knitters of Newfoundland: From Mothers of the Regiment to Mothers of the Nation / Margot I. Duley
3 Freshettes, Farmerettes, and Feminine Fortitude at the University of Toronto during the First World War / Terry Wilde
Part 2: Women’s Work
4 Gendering Patriotism: Canadian Volunteer Nurses as the Female “Soldiers” of the Great War / Linda J. Quiney
5 “Such Sights One Will Never Forget”: Newfoundland Women and Overseas Nursing in the First World War / Terry Bishop Stirling
6 Patriotic, Not Permanent: Attitudes about Women’s Making Bombs and Being Bankers / Kori Street
Part 3: Family Matters
7 An Honour and a Burden: Canadian Girls and the Great War / Kristine Alexander
8 Supporting Soldiers’ Wives and Families in the Great War: What Was Transformed? / Desmond Morton
9 Marks of Grief: Black Attire, Medals, and Service Flags / Suzanne Evans
Part 4: Creative Responses
10 Verses in the Darkness: A Newfoundland Poet Responds to the First World War / Vicki S. Hallett
11 “’Twas You, Mother, Made Me a Man”: The Motherhood Motif in the Poetry of the First World War / Lynn Kennedy
12 “Mother, Lover, Nurse”: The Reassertion of Conventional Gender Norms in Fictional Representations of Disability in Canadian Novels of the First World War / Amy Tector
Conclusion: “Sisterhood of Suffering and Service” / Sarah Glassford and Amy Shaw
Selected Bibliography; Index
