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The wartime discussions that divided women 100 years ago, pitting gender, national and class loyalties against one another, remain alive and well today in critiques of white feminism and its ongoing. British society and the first world war cambridge, 2008. Particularly in europe, the main theatre of the conflict, this war demanded the active participation of both men and women. Apr 27, 2015 women and the first world war by susan r. Gender, motherhood, and politics in britain and france during the first world war. We have you covered with 247 instant online tutoring. As a modern, total war, it brought men and women into active battle zones. In addition to exploring womens relationship to the war in each of the main protagonist states, the book also looks at the wideranging effects of the war on women in africa asia, australia, new. Grayzel explores the unprecedented nature of modern total war, and outlines the origins, experiences, and legacies of the war through.

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