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Fighting Forces, Writing Women: Identity and Ideology in the First World War
Fighting Forces Writing Women Identity and Ideology in the First World War Author:Sharon Ouditt Fighting Forces, Writing Women offers an in-depth feminist reading of the traumatic nature of women's experience during the First World War and delineates the complex ideological structures within which women sought an identity during the war. In this period of idealism and devastation, many women wanted to join their male compatriots in the tre... more »nches. Yet they gained only temporary powers of citizenship, privileges which were again exclusive to men after the Armistice.Fighting Forces covers works from several women writers of the period, from Jeannie Maitland, author of Women's Own, to the writings of Virginia Woolf. Unpublished memoirs, diaries and stories by both famous and little-known writers illustrate the diversity of female responses to the war: propaganda and institutional directives inspire the work of Vera Brittain; pacifist rhetoric emerges in the writings of Rose Maculay, while Virginia Woolf contests the propagandist discourse of her male contemporaries.« less