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Author : Kate Adie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780340833254
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (332 download)
Download or read book Corsets to Camouflage written by Kate Adie and published by . This book was released on 2003-09-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kate Adie
Publisher : Coronet
ISBN 13 : 9780340820605
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Corsets to Camouflage written by Kate Adie and published by Coronet. This book was released on 2004 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a study of the image of uniformed women, both in conflict and in civilian roles throughout the 20th century. Kate Adie looks at how far women have come in a century which, for them, began restricted in corsets and has ended on the battlefield in camouflage.
Author : Kate Adie
Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN 13 : 1444759701
Total Pages : 511 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (447 download)
Download or read book Fighting on the Home Front written by Kate Adie and published by Hodder & Stoughton. This book was released on 2013-09-26 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'History at its most celebratory' Daily Telegraph 'Adie uses her journalistic eye for personal stories and natural compassion to create a book definitely worthy of her heroines' Big Issue 'Fascinating, very readable . . . provides a complete wartime women's history' Discover Your History * * * * * * Bestselling author and award-winning former BBC Chief News Correspondent Kate Adie reveals the ways in which women's lives changed during World War One and what the impact has been for women in its centenary year. IN 1914 THE WORLD CHANGED forever. When World War One broke out and a generation of men went off to fight, bestselling author and From Our Own Correspondent presenter Kate Adie shows how women emerged from the shadows of their domestic lives. Now a visible force in public life, they began to take up essential roles - from transport to policing, munitions to sport, entertainment, even politics. They had finally become citizens, a recognised part of the war machine, acquiring their own rights and often an independent income. The former BBC Chief News Correspondent charts the seismic move towards equal rights with men that began a century ago and through unique first-hand research shows just how momentous the achievements of those pioneering women were. This is history at its best - a vivid, compelling account of the women who helped win the war as well as a revealing assessment of their legacy for women's lives today.
Author : Nina Edwards
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 085772469X
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)
Download or read book Dressed for War written by Nina Edwards and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-27 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Men in khaki and grey squatting in the trenches, women at work, gender bending in goggles and overalls over their trousers, a girl at the Paris theatre in pleated, beaded silk, a bangle on her forearm made from copper fuse wire from the Somme. What people wear matters. Copiously illustrated, this book is the story of what people on both sides wore on the front line and on the home front through the seismic years of World War I. Nina Edwards, reveals fresh aspects of the war through the prism of the smallest details of personal dress, of clothes, hair and accessories, both in uniform and civilian wear. She explores how, during a period of extraordinary upheaval and rapid change, a particular preference for a type of razor blade or perfume, say, or the just-so adjustment to the tilt of a hat, offer insights into the individual experience of men, women and children during the course of World War I.
Author : Mari Agop Firkatian
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 9780761840695
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Diplomats and Dreamers written by Mari Agop Firkatian and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2008 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book chronicles a family of diplomats who experienced the world in transition. Subjects of capricious fate, they forged a destiny as a family that overcame some of the most cataclysmic events of the twentieth century. Diplomats and Dreamers is a family biography that begins with the careers of the parents in 1887 and ends with the death of Nadejda Stancioff, their eldest child, in 1957. The context of historical developments in an uncertain period of European history highlights their lives. Members of the haute bourgeoisie, this accomplished family is noteworthy for an unflagging ability to survive and persist with success and grace. Furthermore, this book addresses issues of gender by using the careers of the Stancioff women as exemplars of how a woman could develop her life in an atmosphere of strict gender divisions in labor. The Stancioff women's way of fitting into the mainstream of elite society is yet another model of a new generation of women who stepped beyond the narrow expectations of what their gender could achieve. Based on unexplored, unpublished primary materials, this book enriches both women's history and European history.
Author : Cecilia Gowdy-Wygant
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822978571
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)
Download or read book Cultivating Victory written by Cecilia Gowdy-Wygant and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2013-04-20 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the First and Second World Wars, food shortages reached critical levels in the Allied nations. The situation in England, which relied heavily on imports and faced German naval blockades, was particularly dire. Government campaigns were introduced in both Britain and the United States to recruit individuals to work on rural farms and to raise gardens in urban areas. These recruits were primarily women, who readily volunteered in what came to be known as Women's Land Armies. Stirred by national propaganda campaigns and a sense of adventure, these women, eager to help in any way possible, worked tirelessly to help their nations grow "victory gardens" to win the war against hunger and fascism. In vacant lots, parks, backyards, between row houses, in flowerboxes, and on farms, groups of primarily urban, middle-class women cultivated vegetables along with a sense of personal pride and achievement. In Cultivating Victory, Cecilia Gowdy-Wygant presents a compelling study of the sea change brought about in politics, society, and gender roles by these wartime campaigns. As she demonstrates, the seeds of this transformation were sown years before the First World War by women suffragists and international women's organizations. Gowdy-Wygant profiles the foundational organizations and significant individuals in Britain and America, such as Lady Gertrude Denman and Harriet Stanton Blatch, who directed the Women's Land Armies and fought to leverage the wartime efforts of women to eventually win voting rights and garner new positions in the workforce and politics. In her original transnational history, Gowdy-Wygant compares and contrasts the outcomes of war in both nations as seen through changing gender roles and women's ties to labor, agriculture, the home, and the environment. She sheds new light on the cultural legacies left by the Women's Land Armies and their major role in shaping national and personal identities.
Author : Jeremy A. Crang
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110891599X
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Sisters in Arms written by Jeremy A. Crang and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-03 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Second World War some 600,000 women were absorbed into the Women's Auxiliary Air Force, the Auxiliary Territorial Service, and the Women's Royal Naval Service. These women performed important military functions for the armed forces, both at home and overseas, and the jobs they undertook ranged from cooking, typing and telephony to stripping down torpedoes, overhauling aircraft engines, and operating the fire control instruments in anti-aircraft gun batteries. In this wide-ranging study, which draws on a multitude of sources and combines organisational history with the personal experiences of servicewomen, Jeremy Crang traces the wartime history of the WAAF, ATS and WRNS and the integration of women into the British armed forces. Servicewomen came to play such an integral wartime role that the military authorities established permanent regular post-war women's services and, in so doing, opened up for the first time a military career for women.
Author : Kristina Seleshanko
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486276287
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (862 download)
Download or read book Bound & Determined written by Kristina Seleshanko and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-04-09 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revealing history of corsetry ranges from the 19th through the mid-20th centuries to show how simple laced bodices developed into corsets of cane, whalebone, and steel. Lavish illustrations include line drawings and photographs.
Author : Valerie Steele
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (131 download)
Download or read book The Corset written by Valerie Steele and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Helena Page Schrader
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1844153886
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (441 download)
Download or read book Sisters in Arms written by Helena Page Schrader and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2006-05-30 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During World War II, a few, carefully selected women in the US and the UK were briefly given the unprecedented opportunity to fly military aircraft. Yet the story of these pioneer women pilots is made even more intriguing by the fact that, despite many notable similarities in the utilisation and organisation of the women in their respective countries, they experienced radically different fates. Throughout the war, the contribution of the women of the British ATA to the war effort was recognized and praised both from official quarters and in the press. By contrast, the American WASPs were first glamorized and made into Hollywood stars - and then subjected to a slander campaign. What accounts for this dramatic difference in the treatment of women pilots doing essentially the same job? This book seeks to answer these questions. The women who participated in the ATA and WASP have been allowed to speak for themselves. The story these women have to tell is exciting and intriguing.
Author : Linda J. Quiney
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774830743
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)
Download or read book This Small Army of Women written by Linda J. Quiney and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2017-05-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With her soft linen head scarf and white apron emblazoned with a red cross, the Voluntary Aid Detachment nurse, or VAD, has become a romantic emblem of the First World War. This Small Army of Women draws on diaries, letters, and interviews to tell the forgotten story of the nearly two thousand women from Canada and Newfoundland who volunteered to “do their bit” at home and overseas. Middle-class and well-educated but largely untrained, VADs were excluded from Canadian military hospitals overseas (the realm of the professional nurse) but helped solve Britain’s nursing deficit and filled gaps in Canada’s domestic nursing ranks. Their dedication and struggle to secure a place at their brothers’ bedsides reveals much about women’s contributions to the war effort, the tensions between amateur and professional nurses, and women’s evolving role outside the home.
Author : Katie Barclay
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317611624
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)
Download or read book Performing the Self written by Katie Barclay and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-14 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: That the self is ‘performed’, created through action rather than having a prior existence, has been an important methodological intervention in our understanding of human experience. It has been particularly significant for studies of gender, helping to destabilise models of selfhood where women were usually defined in opposition to a male norm. In this multidisciplinary collection, scholars apply this approach to a wide array of historical sources, from literature to art to letters to museum exhibitions, which survive from the medieval to modern periods. In doing so, they explore the extent that using a model of performativity can open up our understanding of women’s lives and sense of self in the past. They highlight the way that this method provides a significant critique of power relationships within society that offers greater agency to women as historical actors and offers a challenge to traditional readings of women’s place in society. An innovative and wide-ranging compilation, this book provides a template for those wishing to apply performativity to women’s lives in historical context. This book was originally published as a special issue of Women’s History Review.
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Corsets and Brassieres written by and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rachel Woodward
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134163622
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)
Download or read book Sexing the Soldier written by Rachel Woodward and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-08-07 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sexing the Soldier takes a critical look at how gender - what it means to be a man or a woman - is understood within the contemporary British Army, and the political and practical consequences of this. Drawing on original research, this informaive volume looks at: the history and structure of the British Army as a masculine institution personnel policies which deal with gender issues the construction of ideas about military masculinities and femininities within the Army media representations of the figure of the soldier. Using case studies ranging from the exclusion of women from direct combat posts, to the issues surrounding bullying, this book argues that we need a fuller, more nuanced assessment of gender issues in the military that moves beyond the simplistic ideas about women's and men's 'natural' capacities for soldiering.
Author : William Barry Lord
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330022726
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (227 download)
Download or read book The Corset and the Crinoline written by William Barry Lord and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Corset and the Crinoline: A Book of Modes and Costumes From Remote Periods to the Present Time The subject which we have here treated is a sort of figurative battle-field, where fierce contests have for ages been from time to time waged; and, notwithstanding the determined assaults of the attacking hosts, the contention and its cause remain pretty much as they were at the commencement of the war. We in the matter remain strictly neutral, merely performing the part of the public's "own correspondent," making it our duty to gather together such extracts from despatches, both ancient and modern, as may prove interesting or important, to take note of the vicissitudes of war, mark its various phases, and, in fine, to do our best to lay clearly before our readers the historical facts - experiences and arguments - relating to the much-discussed "Corset question." As most of our readers are aware, the leading journals especially intended for the perusal of ladies have been for many years the media for the exchange of a vast number of letters and papers touching the use of the Corset. The questions relating to the history of this apparently indispensable article of ladies' attire, its construction, application, and influence on the figure have become so numerous of late that we have thought, by embodying all that we can glean and garner relating to Corsets, their wearers, and the various costumes worn by ladies at different periods, arranging the subject-matter in its due order as to dates, and at the same time availing ourselves of careful illustration when needed, that an interesting volume would result. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : William Barry Lord
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780266795926
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (959 download)
Download or read book The Corset and the Crinoline written by William Barry Lord and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-27 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Corset and the Crinoline: A Book of Modes and Costumes From Remote Periods to the Present Time The subject which we have here treated is a sort of figurative battle-field, where fierce contests have for ages been from time to time waged; and, notwithstanding the determined assaults of the attacking hosts, the contention and its cause remain pretty much as they were at the commencement of the war. We in the matter remain strictly neutral, merely performing the part of the public's own correspondent, making it our duty to gather together such extracts from despatches, both ancient and modern, as may prove interesting or important, to take note of the vicissitudes of war, mark its various phases, and, in fine, to do our best to lay clearly before our readers the historical facts - experiences and arguments - relating to the much-discussed Corset question. As most of our readers are aware, the leading journals especially intended for the perusal of ladies have been for many years the media for. The exchange of a vast number of letters and papers touching the use of the Corset. The questions relating to the history of this apparently indispensable article of ladies' attire, its construction, application, and influence on the figure have become so numerous of late that we have thought, by embodying all that we can glean and garner relating to Corsets, their wearers, and the various costumes worn by ladies at difl'erent periods, arranging the subject-matter in its due order as to dates, and at the same time availing Ourselves of careful illustration when needed, that an interesting volume would result. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book ThirdWay written by and published by . This book was released on 2003-12 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monthly current affairs magazine from a Christian perspective with a focus on politics, society, economics and culture.
