Women and Evacuation in the Second World War

Women and Evacuation in the Second World War
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages : 233
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ISBN-10 : 9781441140685
ISBN-13 : 1441140689
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Book Synopsis Women and Evacuation in the Second World War by : Maggie Andrews

Download or read book Women and Evacuation in the Second World War written by Maggie Andrews and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-08-08 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction ; 1. Myths, Memories and Memorials of Evacuation ; 2. Femininity, Domesticity and Motherhood 1900-1939 ; 3. Nationalising Hundreds and Thousands of Women: A Domestic Response to a National Problem ; 4. The Challenges of Enforced Intimacy: Looking after Evacuees ; 5. Mothers Encouraged to Wave Goodbye ; 6. Women's Organisations and Evacuation ; 7. Women Were Paid to Care: Teachers, Social Workers and Psychologists ; 8. Afterword: The Post-war Idealisation of the Family in the Wake Evacuation.


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