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Book SynopsisWar 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 ContentsIntroduction
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
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