Description
Book Synopsis'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.
Table of ContentsList of contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. 'What part have I now that you have come together?' Richard Aldington on war, gender and textual representation - Caroline Zilboorg
2. Shell-shocked in Somerville: Vera Brittain's post-traumatic stress disorder - Andrea Peterson
3. Gender, war and writing in Aldous Huxley's 'Farcical history of Richard Greenow' - Erik Svarny
4. How gender serves Trotskyism: The Spanish civil war in Ken Loach's 'Land and Freedom' - Alan Munton
5. Clothes and uniform in the theatre of Facism: Clemence Dane and Virginia Woolf - Jenny Hartley
6. Women and the Battle of the Atlantic 1939-45: Contemporary texts, propaganda and life-writing - G.H. Bennett
7. 'The best disguise': Performing femininities for clandestine purposes during the Second World War - Juliette Pattinson
8. The war at home: Family, gender and post-colonial issues in three Vietnam war texts - Marion Gibson
9. Chicken or hawk? Heroism, masculinity and violence in Vietnam war narratives - Angela K. Smith
10. Elite women warriors and dog soldiers: Gender adaptations in modern war film - Jeff Walsh
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