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The First World War was a transformative experience for women, facilitating their entry into new spaces and alternative spheres of activity, both on the home front and on the edges of danger zones in Europe and beyond. The centenary of the conflict is an appropriate moment to reassess what we choose to remember about women's roles and responsibilities in this period and how women recorded their experiences. It is timely to (re)consider the narratives of women's involvement not only as nurses, VADs and mourning mothers, but as pacifist campaigners, poets, war correspondents and contributors to developing genres of war writing.
This interdisciplinary volume examines women's representations of wartime experience across a wide range of genres, including modernist fiction, ghost stories, utopia, poetry, life-writing and journalism. Contributors provide fresh perspectives on women's written responses to the conflict, exploring women's war work, constructions of femininity and the maternal in wartime, and the relationship between feminism, suffrage and pacifism. The volume reinforces the importance of the retrieval of women's wartime experience, urging us to rethink what we choose to commemorate and widening the presence of women in the expanding canon of war writing. This book was originally published as a special issue of Women's Writing.
Contents
Introduction 1. Outsider Positions: Negotiating Gender, Nationality and Memory in the War Writing of Enid Bagnold 2. Queering the Home Front: Subversive Temporalities and Sexualities in Rose Allatini's Despised and Rejected and Bryher's Two Selves 3. Women's Poetry in First World War Anthologies and Two Collections of 1916 4. "The Cataclysm We All Remember": Haunting and Spectral Trauma in the First World War Supernatural Stories of H. D. Everett 5. "I had a Baby, I Mean I didn't, in an Air Raid": War and Stillbirth in H. D.'s Asphodel 6. The Responsibility of Women: Women's Anti-War Writing in the Press, 1914-16 7. A Lack of Engagement? The Containment of War in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Forerunner 8. Women and the "War Machine" in the Desert Romances of E. M. Hull and Rosita Forbes
