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War Girls shares the stories of the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (FANY), a group of audacious middle- and upper-class British women volunteers who nursed and worked as driver-mechanics during the First World War. It explores the ways the women subverted traditional mythologies about gender and imagined new cultural possibilities

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Introduction
I. Aristocratic amazons in arms: The founding of the FANY 1907–14
2. The great adventures begin: Grace Ashley-Smith in Belgium Autumn 1914
3. Band of Hope: FANY with the Belgians at Lamarck Hospital 1914–15
4. Not a woman, but a FANY: Working for the British in Calais 1916 5. Progression is our watchword: The Belgian Convoy and Port à Binson Priory hospital 1917
6. Petticoat warriors: The French units and the convoy at St Omer 1917–18
7. Esprit de corps: FANY service after the Armistice 1918–19 Postscript
Index

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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: 7/30/2012 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780719067136, 978-0719067136
      ISBN10: 0719067138

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      War Girls shares the stories of the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (FANY), a group of audacious middle- and upper-class British women volunteers who nursed and worked as driver-mechanics during the First World War. It explores the ways the women subverted traditional mythologies about gender and imagined new cultural possibilities

      Table of Contents

      Introduction
      I. Aristocratic amazons in arms: The founding of the FANY 1907–14
      2. The great adventures begin: Grace Ashley-Smith in Belgium Autumn 1914
      3. Band of Hope: FANY with the Belgians at Lamarck Hospital 1914–15
      4. Not a woman, but a FANY: Working for the British in Calais 1916 5. Progression is our watchword: The Belgian Convoy and Port à Binson Priory hospital 1917
      6. Petticoat warriors: The French units and the convoy at St Omer 1917–18
      7. Esprit de corps: FANY service after the Armistice 1918–19 Postscript
      Index

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