Behind the lines : gender and the two world wars /
Essays analyze the two world wars in respect to gender politics and reassesse the differences between men and women in relation to war.
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[1987]
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Table of Contents:
- Rewriting history / Joan W. Scott
- The double helix / Margaret R. Higonnet and Patrice L.-R. Higonnet
- The new Eve and the old Adam: French women's condition at the turn of the century / Michelle Perrot
- Rivers and Sassoon: the inscription of male gender anxieties / Elaine Showalter
- Vera Brittain's Testament(s) / Lynne Layton
- Growing up banished: a reading of Anne Frank and Ette Hillesum / Yasmine Ergas
- More Minerva than Mars: the French women's rights campaign and the First World War / Steven C. Hause
- Women's military services in the First World War Britain / Jenny Gould
- The German nation's obligation to the heroes' widows of world War I / Karin Hausen
- Redefining resistance: women's activism in wartime France / Paula Schwartz
- American women and the discourse of the democratic family in World War II / Sonya Michel
- American women and industrial unionism during world War II / Ruth Milkman
- Waiting for the captive sons of France: prisoner of war wives, 1940-1945 / Sarah Fishman
- Soldier's heart: literary men, literary women and the Great War / Sandra M. Gilbert
- "This is my rifle, this is my gun": World War II and the blitz on women / Susan Gubar
- Some peculiarities of social policy concerning women in wartime and postwar Britain / Denise Riley
- The liberation and new rights for French women / Jane Jenson
- German women's memories of World War II / Annemarie Tröger.