Material Traces of War
Subtitle: Stories of Canadian Women and Conflict, 1914-1945
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press/Les Presses de l'Universite d'Ottawa
Published: 2020
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780776629209
Description: "This volume looks at Canadian women's experiences of, and contributions to, the world wars through objects, images, and archival documents. The book tells the stories of women who worked as civilians, served in the military, volunteered their time, and grieved lost loved ones, through thematically organized vignettes. The authors place these personal narratives of individual women, and their related material culture, in the wider context of the world wars while demonstrating that the experience of living through global conflict was as individual as a woman's particular circumstances. Drawing from the collections of the Canadian War Museum, the Canadian Museum of History, and other public and private collections in Canada, Material Traces of War brings largely unknown material culture collections to public view and draws attention to the untold stories of women and war."--