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Margaret R. Higonnet

Autor/a de Lines of Fire

16+ obres 246 Membres 7 Ressenyes

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Margaret R. Higonnet is Professor of English at the University of Connecticut and an Affiliate at Harvard University's Center for European Studies

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The effect the two world wars had on the relationships between men and women. Higonnet has pulled together a group of essays by different authors which discuss such topics as women's military service in WWI Britain, American women and the democratic family during World War II, Women's Activism during Wartime France, and male gender anxieties during wartime.
 
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MWMLibrary | Jan 14, 2022 |
Exerpts from long out of print memoirs of two American nurses at the front during WWI, Ellen La Motte and Mary Borden. Both women describe difficult conditions faced by American nurses at military hospitals. Their perspectives were very different, however. Borden was a Vassar graduate married to an Englishman; a mother an daspiring writer who had never nursed before she volunteered. She is typical of many of the idealistic, upper class women who felt compelled to do something to help during the war. La Motte was a professional nurse with administrative experience who was a specialist in tuberculosis. The two women met at a hospital at the front, and became friends.… (més)
 
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MWMLibrary | Hi ha 1 ressenya més | Jan 14, 2022 |
Thematically organized essays, poetry, articles, and stories written by women during WWI edited by Higonnet. Articles include political writings of British, French, Canadian, Russian, Austrian and German women; women jouranlist's articles from the front (including American Mary Roberts Rinehart); diaries and letters (including African American Addie Hunton on the YMCA) fiction and poetry.
 
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MWMLibrary | Hi ha 2 ressenyes més | Jan 14, 2022 |
I was hesitant to read this book, thinking what could these women contribute to such a well-documented time in history?"

Now I know: they stayed behind and starved, and dealt with children starving, and brought their labor problems to the forefront of the time with strikes.

Oh, and women's right to vote in the US was suppressed until the end of America's involvement in the War. And then women were allowed to vote and the US has never been the same.

The narratives and histories and articles are translated and historical and fascinating and gripping. Hard to read but worth every moment."… (més)
 
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threadnsong | Hi ha 2 ressenyes més | Jun 18, 2016 |

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Obres
16
També de
3
Membres
246
Popularitat
#92,613
Valoració
3.8
Ressenyes
7
ISBN
28

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