The world wars through the female gaze
By: Jean Gallagher.
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Carbondale
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives, American; World War, 1914-1918 -- Pictorial works; World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American; World War, 1939-1945 -- Pictorial works; Women -- United States -- Biography; Visual perception
Genres: Personal narratives, American.; Pictorial works.; Biography.
Description: In The World Wars Through the Female Gaze, Jean Gallagher maps one portion of the historicized, gendered territory of what Nancy K. Miller calls the "gaze in representation." Expanding the notion of the gaze in critical discourse, Gallagher situates a number of visual acts within specific historic contexts to reconstruct the wartime female subject.

She looks at both the female observer's physical act of seeing - and the refusal to see - for example, a battlefield, a wounded soldier, a torture victim, a national flag, a fashion model, a bombed city, or a wartime hallucination. Interdisciplinary in focus, this book brings together visual (twenty-two illustrations) and literary texts, "high" and "popular" expressive forms, and well-known and lesser-known figures and texts.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-185) and index.