Fighting Forces, Writing Women

A fascinating examination of the traumatic nature of women's experience during the First World War, and the ways in which they sought to mediate their attraction to a fixed female identity with their desire for radical social change.

Sharon Ouditt is Lecturer in English and Cultural Studies at The Nottingham Trent University.

List of Plates -- Acknowledgements -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 NUNS AND LOVERS: Voluntary Aid Detachment nurses in the First World War -- 2 COUNTRY AND TOWN, AGRICULTURE AND MUNITIONS: The proper lady and the woman worker -- 3 WOMEN AT HOME: Romance or realism? -- 4 REACTIONARY OR REVOLUTIONARY? The maternal pacifist -- 5 WOOLF, WAR AND WRITING: New words, new methods -- CONCLUSION -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.