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Women in the British Army: War and the Gentle Sex, 1907-1948
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Women in the British Army: War and the Gentle Sex, 1907-1948 Hardcover - 2006 - 1st Edition

by Lucy Noakes


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In this fascinating, timely and engaging study, Lucy Noakes examines women's role in the army and female military organizations during the First and Second World Wars, during peacetime, in the interwar era and in the post-war period.

Providing a unique examination of women's struggle for acceptance by the British army, Noakes argues that women in uniform during the first half of the twentieth century challenged traditional notions of gender and threatened to destabilise clear-cut notions of identity by unsettling the masculine territory of warfare. Noakes also examines the tensions that arose as the army attempted to reconcile its need for female labour with their desire to ensure that the military remained a male preserve.

Drawing on a range of archival sources, including previously unpublished letters and diaries, official documents, newspapers and magazines, Women in the British Army uncovers the gendered discourses of the army to reveal that it was a key site in the formation of male and female identities.

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  • Title Women in the British Army: War and the Gentle Sex, 1907-1948
  • Author Lucy Noakes
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 224
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Routledge
  • Date 2006-04
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780415390569 / 0415390567
  • Weight 1.05 lbs (0.48 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.24 x 6.38 x 0.72 in (23.47 x 16.21 x 1.83 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1900-1949
    • Cultural Region: British
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Library of Congress subjects Great Britain - Women, Women soldiers - Great Britain - History -
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005024945
  • Dewey Decimal Code 355.008

About the author

Lucy Noakes is Senior Lecturer in the School of Creative Arts, Film and Media at the University of Portsmouth. She is author of War and the British: Gender and National Identity, 1939-1991 (1998).

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