Beyond the Home Front : Women's Autobiographical Writing of the Two World Wars
Language: English
Published by MACMILLAN, London, 1996
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How women perceived the world wars of this century is markedly different from the common perception of how these wars affected their lives. Drawing on a broad variety of sources, many long out of print, this anthology brings together the autobiographical accounts of both famous and ordinary women to provide a new view of the changing role of women as they experienced the sorrows, the terrors and the occasional joys of war in the twentieth century. How women perceived the world wars of this century is markedly different from the common perception of how these wars affected their lives. Drawing on a broad variety of sources, many long out of print, this anthology brings together the autobiographical accounts of both famous and ordinary women to provide a new view of the changing role of women as they experienced the sorrows, the terrors and the occasional joys of war in the twentieth century. This 1997 1st edition copy is sold in FINE condition between FINE illustrated card covers.
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- Title
- Beyond the Home Front : Women's Autobiographical Writing of the Two World Wars
- Author
- Yvonne M. Klein
- Publisher
- MACMILLAN, London
- Publication year
- 1996
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- Fine
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0333670167
- ISBN 13
- 9780333670163
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Dimensions
- 254pp
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From the Author
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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