Title: Women as veterans in Britain and France after the First World War /
Authors: Fell, Alison S., 1971-
Year: 2018
Subjects: Women veterans Great Britain.; Women veterans France.; World War, 1914-1918 Participation, Female.; Women veterans Great Britain Social conditions.; Women veterans France Social conditions.; Women Identity.; Military participation Female.; Women Identity; Women veterans; France; Great Britain
Abstract: "This is the story of how women in France and Britain between 1915 and 1933 appropriated the cultural identity of female war veteran in order to have greater access to public life and a voice in a political climate in which women were rarely heard on the public stage"--
Contents: Introduction -- Women as veterans in the commemorative landscapes of interwar Britain and France -- The afterlives of First World War heroines -- 'That glorious comradeship' : female veteran groups in the 1920s -- Writing as a veteran : women's war memoirs -- Women's wartime industrial action and the limits of female veteran identity -- Conclusion.