Women and war
(a) the impact of war on women
(b) contemporary gender attitudes
2. Analyse the short and long term consequences of war work upon women.
3. What was the impact of the war upon ideas about gender roles?
Core Reading
Brittain, Vera. Testament of Youth, ch. 3, parts 2-8; chap 4; ch. 8, part 11 to end;ch. 10, parts 2-10; ch. 11, parts 1-3, parts 7-11; ch. 12, part 11
Braybon, Gail and Summerfield, Penelope. Out of the Cage: Women's Experiences in Two World Wars, chs 3-8
Bruley, S. Women in Britain since 1900, chs. 2, 3
Kent, Susan Kingsley. 'Gender Reconstruction after the First World War' in Smith, H.L. (ed), British Feminism in the Twentieth Century#
Purvis, June (ed) Women's History: Britain, 1850-1945, ch. 12
Vera Brittain
Layton, L. 'Vera Brittain's Testament(s)' in Higgonet et al (eds), Behind the Lines
Lewis, Jane. Labour and Love
Lewis, Jane. Women in England 1870-1950: Sexual Divisions and Social Change, ch.3
Mellown, Muriel. 'Vera Brittain: Feminist in a New Age' in Spender (ed), Feminist Theories
Pugh, Martin. Women and the Women's Movement in Britain 1914-1959
World War I
Braybon, Gail. 'Women and the War' in Constantine et al (eds), The First World War in British History
Higgonet, M.et al (eds), Behind the Lines
Marwick, Arthur. The Deluge: British Society and the First World War
Marwick, Arthur. (ed) Total War and Social Change
Pugh, Martin. Women and the Women's Movement in Britain 1914-1959, ch.2
Thom, Deborah. 'Women's Work in World War I' in Winter and Wall (eds), The Upheaval of War
Tylee, C. The Great War and Women's Consciousness: Images of Militarism and Feminism in Women's Writings, 1914-1964
Wollacott, A. On Her Their Lives Depend: Munitions Workers in the Great War
Alberti, J. Beyond Suffrage: Feminists in War and Peace 1914-1918
Inter-War Period
Brivati, B.and Jones, H. (ed), What Difference did the War Make?
Beddoe, D. Women Between the Wars, 1918-1939
Glucksman, Miriam. Women Assemble: Women Workers and the New Industries in Inter-War Britain
Gittins, D. The Fair Sex: Family Size and Structure
Graves, P. M. Labour Women: Women in British Working-Class Politics
Horn, Pamela. Life Below Stairs in the Twentieth Century
Kent, Susan Kingsley. Making Peace: The Reconstruction of Gender in Interwar Britain
Smith, Harold. British Feminism in the Twentieth Century
Thane, 'Pat. Women in the British Labour Party' in Koven and Michel (eds), Mothers of a New World
Thane, Pat. 'What Difference Did the Vote Make?' in Vickery (ed), Women, Privilege and Power