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The Old Front Line: Returning to the Battlefields in the Writings of Ex-Servicemen
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Pegum, John - The Old Front Line: Returning to the Battlefields in the Writings of Ex-Servicemen
Keywords: battlefield | British women | ex-servicemen | old front lines | old Western Front | soldiers | The Daily Telegraph
ISFWWS-Keywords: Britain | Western Front | Published memoirs and biographies | Experience of combat | Culture | Literature | Australia | Intellectuals and the War
Abstract: The old battlefield is imagined as a mute witness to the horrors and traumas of the war which can nonetheless impart its profound and tragic lesson to those …
‘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 …