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Shows how conflict has changed women's lives and how those changes have put women at the centre of peace campaigning.

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'Links two major forms of women's involvement in war: as activists opposing conflict and as workers during it. Seen through the prism of women's experience, German tells a fascinating and important story' -- Nina Power, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Roehampton University and the author of One-Dimensional Woman.

Table of Contents
1. Women and the Great War
2. The Home Front 1939-45
3. In the shadow of the bomb
4. Vietnam and the liberation decade
5. From Greenham to the Gulf
6. A mass movement is born
7. War, liberation and Muslim women
8. Changes: war and women’s consciousness
9. Conclusion
Notes
Index

How a Century of War Changed the Lives of Women

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      Publisher: Pluto Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 06/02/2013
      ISBN13: 9780745332505, 978-0745332505
      ISBN10: 0745332501

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Shows how conflict has changed women's lives and how those changes have put women at the centre of peace campaigning.

      Trade Review
      'Links two major forms of women's involvement in war: as activists opposing conflict and as workers during it. Seen through the prism of women's experience, German tells a fascinating and important story' -- Nina Power, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Roehampton University and the author of One-Dimensional Woman.

      Table of Contents
      1. Women and the Great War
      2. The Home Front 1939-45
      3. In the shadow of the bomb
      4. Vietnam and the liberation decade
      5. From Greenham to the Gulf
      6. A mass movement is born
      7. War, liberation and Muslim women
      8. Changes: war and women’s consciousness
      9. Conclusion
      Notes
      Index

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