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- catalog abstract ""Despite acts of female heroism, popular memory, as well as official memorialization in monuments and historic sites, has ignored French women's role in the First World War. This book explores stories that were never told and why they were not. These include the experiences of French women in the war, the stories they themselves told about these experiences and how French society interpreted them. The author examines the ways French women served their country - from charity work, nursing and munitions manufacture to volunteering for military service and espionage. In tracing stories about war heroines, but also about villainesses like Mata Hari, this fascinating study shows what these stories reveal about French understanding of the war, their hopes and fears for the future. While the masculine war story was unitary and unchanging, the feminine story was multiple and shifting. Initially praised for their voluntary mobilization, women's claims of patriotism were undercut by criticisms as the war bogged down in the trenches. Were nurses giving solace or seeking romance? Were munitions workers patriots or profiteers? The prosecutions of Mata Hari for espionage and HÈl'ne Brion for subversion show how attitudes to women's claim of patriotism changed. French women's relationship to the war called into question ideas about gender, definitions of citizenship and national identity. This book is the first study of women at war to treat both their experiences and its representations, which shaped nationalism, war and gender for the rest of the twentieth century. It makes an important contribution to the burgeoning history of collective memory and of the First World War."--Googlebooks.".
- catalog contributor b11668329.
- catalog created "2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
- catalog description ""Despite acts of female heroism, popular memory, as well as official memorialization in monuments and historic sites, has ignored French women's role in the First World War. This book explores stories that were never told and why they were not. These include the experiences of French women in the war, the stories they themselves told about these experiences and how French society interpreted them. The author examines the ways French women served their country - from charity work, nursing and munitions manufacture to volunteering for military service and espionage. In tracing stories about war heroines, but also about villainesses like Mata Hari, this fascinating study shows what these stories reveal about French understanding of the war, their hopes and fears for the future. While the masculine war story was unitary and unchanging, the feminine story was multiple and shifting. Initially praised for their voluntary mobilization, women's claims of patriotism were undercut by criticisms as the war bogged down in the trenches. Were nurses giving solace or seeking romance? Were munitions workers patriots or profiteers? The prosecutions of Mata Hari for espionage and HÈl'ne Brion for subversion show how attitudes to women's claim of patriotism changed. French women's relationship to the war called into question ideas about gender, definitions of citizenship and national identity. This book is the first study of women at war to treat both their experiences and its representations, which shaped nationalism, war and gender for the rest of the twentieth century. It makes an important contribution to the burgeoning history of collective memory and of the First World War."--Googlebooks.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 318-334) and index.".
- catalog description "Woman and war -- Women's war imagined: 1871-1914 -- The mobilization of femininity -- War heroines/war victims -- White angels of the battlefield -- French women in the war economy -- "I want to be militarized"--The enemy was a woman.".
- catalog extent "ix, 341 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "French women and the First World War.".
- catalog identifier "1859733611 (cloth)".
- catalog identifier "1859733662 (pbk.)".
- catalog isFormatOf "French women and the First World War.".
- catalog isPartOf "The Legacy of the Great War".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Oxford ; New York : Berg,".
- catalog relation "French women and the First World War.".
- catalog spatial "France".
- catalog spatial "France.".
- catalog subject "940.30820944 21".
- catalog subject "D639.W7 D38 2000".
- catalog subject "Women France History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "World War, 1914-1918 France Participation, Female.".
- catalog subject "World War, 1914-1918 Women France.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Woman and war -- Women's war imagined: 1871-1914 -- The mobilization of femininity -- War heroines/war victims -- White angels of the battlefield -- French women in the war economy -- "I want to be militarized"--The enemy was a woman.".
- catalog title "French women and the First World War : war stories of the home front / Margaret H. Darrow.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".