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‘Playing at being Soldiers’?: British Women and Military Uniform in the First World War
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Noakes, Lucy - ‘Playing at being Soldiers’?: British Women and Military Uniform in the First World War
Keywords: British women | femininity | First World War | Marjorie Garber | military uniform | soldiering | Susan Grayzel
ISFWWS-Keywords: Britain | Women and War | Home fronts | Politics | Masculinity | Gender | Society
Abstract: The woman in military uniform threatens to destabilise both the femininity of the women who wear it and the naturalised linkage between soldiering and masculinity. As Marjorie Garber has argued, the “sight …