Janet Lee

War girls

The First Aid Nursing Yeomanry in the First World War

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Produktbeschreibung

War Girls shares the stories of the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (FANY), a group of audacious middle- and upper-class British women volunteers who nursed and worked as driver-mechanics during the First World War. It explores the ways the women subverted traditional mythologies about gender and imagined new cultural possibilities

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 436g
• ISBN-13: 9780719067136
• ISBN-10: 0719067138
• Artikelnr.: 36147958

Autorenporträt

Janet Lee is Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Oregon State University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction I. Aristocratic amazons in arms: The founding of the FANY
1907-14 2. The great adventures begin: Grace Ashley-Smith in Belgium Autumn
1914 3. Band of Hope: FANY with the Belgians at Lamarck Hospital 1914-15 4.
Not a woman, but a FANY: Working for the British in Calais 1916 5.
Progression is our watchword: The Belgian Convoy and Port à Binson Priory
hospital 1917 6. Petticoat warriors: The French units and the convoy at St
Omer 1917-18 7. Esprit de corps: FANY service after the Armistice 1918-19
Postscript Index