Beyond the Home Front: Women's Autobiographical Writing of the Two World Wars
Language: English
Published by New York University Press, 1997
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- Title
- Beyond the Home Front: Women's Autobiographical Writing of the Two World Wars
- Author
- Klein, Yvonne M.
- Publisher
- New York University Press
- Publication year
- 1997
- Condition
- Fair
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0814747027
- ISBN 13
- 9780814747025
Few would argue that war has been a defining experience for people born in Europe and North America in the twentieth century. The degree to which war has been instrumental in improving women's social situation remains a vexed question, however. Conventional wisdom repeats the cliche that the Great War liberated women by allowing them to demonstrate their fitness for equality by recruiting them to work in men's jobs previously considered beyond their capabilities. In fact, their patriotic enthusiasm was used against them after the war, when they were seen to have profited from the deaths of the men they replaced. As Europe prepared for the Second World War, this resentment of women's perceived war-profiteering helped to smooth their transition from sacred, protected icon to target.
In Beyond The Home Front, Yvonne M. Klein provides selections from autobiographical writing by women in the two World Wars that illustrate the richness and complexity of women's war-time lives. Although women generally did not take up arms, this collection reminds us that their war stories are neither peripheral nor secondary to the battle stories of men. This volume helps to reclaim women's experience of war as part of the universal experience of the twentieth century, different from that of men, but not as different as might be thought.
Bringing together more than forty selections from the two wars, Beyond the Home Front includes the work, much of it long out of print, of a wide array of voices including Sylvia Pankhurst, Vera Brittain, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Mary Lee Settle, Mary Borden, Gertrude Stein, and Joy Kogawa. The volume, which will appeal to the general reader as well as to the student of history and literature, includes contextual introductions as well as brief biographies of each of the writers.
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War, in its increasing totality, has been the defining experience of our century. Although by its very definition, total war is waged against entire populations, in the popular imagination, war remains "men's business," and women occupy only peripheral positions on the "home front" either as the grieving mother, the tender nurse, or the cold-hearted female profiting from men's sacrifice. From this perspective, men in times of war hold center-stage, while women wait anxiously in the wings for the outcome that will decide their fate. Yet when we examine the records that women in wartime have left behind them, we ought not to be surprised that they saw their lives rather differently. During the First World War, women ardently sought inclusion as the price to be paid for citizenship and equality. They frequently rejected the role imposed on them by government propaganda as the swooning victim of enemy brutality. Twenty years later, robbed of any semblance of protected status, they reached deeply into their female experience to find ways to avoid the victimization thrust on them by total war and to gain what measure of control over their lives that they could. The selections in Beyond the Home Front illustrate the richness and complexity of women's wartime lives. All autobiographical, chosen for the power of their literary expression as well as for their content, they come from British, European, and North American sources, many long out of print. This volume helps to reclaim women's experience of war as part of the universal experience of the twentieth century, different from that of men, but not as different as we may have thought.
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