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New PDF release: Women in the British Army: War and the Gentle Sex, 1907–1948

By Lucy Noakes

ISBN-10: 0415390567

ISBN-13: 9780415390569

ISBN-10: 0415390575

ISBN-13: 9780415390576

In this attention-grabbing, well timed and fascinating examine, Lucy Noakes examines women's position within the military and feminine army enterprises throughout the First and moment global Wars, in the course of peacetime, within the interwar period and within the post-war interval.


Providing a special exam of women’s fight for attractiveness via the British military, Noakes argues that girls in uniform through the first 1/2 the 20 th century challenged conventional notions of gender and threatened to destabilise straight forward notions of id through unsettling the masculine territory of battle. Noakes additionally examines the tensions that arose because the military tried to reconcile its want for woman labour with their wish to make sure that the army remained a male preserve.


Drawing on various archival assets, together with formerly unpublished letters and diaries, professional records, newspapers and magazines, Women within the British Army uncovers the gendered discourses of the military to bare that it was once a key web site within the formation of female and male identities.

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