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Gender and warfare in the twentieth century' is a collection of essays that explores the way in which issues of gender impacted upon twentieth-century warfare. A range of specialist contributors provide exciting, accessible and very readable essays covering a range of wars and textual media.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Half Title, Title Page, Copyright
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. v-vi
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  1. Notes on contributors
  2. pp. vii-viii
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  1. Acknowledgements
  2. pp. ix-x
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  1. Introduction
  2. pp. 1-11
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  1. 1. ‘What part have I now that you have come together?’ Richard Aldington on war, gender and textual representation
  2. Caroline Zilboorg
  3. pp. 12-32
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  1. 2. Shell-shocked in Somerville: Vera Brittain’s post-traumatic stress disorder
  2. Andrea Peterson
  3. pp. 33-52
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  1. 3. Gender, war and writing in Aldous Huxley’s ‘Farcical History of Richard Greenow’
  2. Erik Svarny
  3. pp. 53-75
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  1. 4. How gender serves Trotskyism: the Spanish Civil War in Ken Loach’s Land and Freedom
  2. Alan Munton
  3. pp. 76-95
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  1. 5. Clothes and uniform in the theatre of fascism: Clemence Dane and Virginia Woolf
  2. Jenny Hartley
  3. pp. 96-110
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  1. 6. Women and the battle of the Atlantic 1939-45: contemporary texts, propaganda, and life writing
  2. G. H. Bennett
  3. pp. 111-131
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  1. 7. ‘The best disguise’: performing femininities for clandestine purposes during the Second World War
  2. Juliette Pattinson
  3. pp. 132-153
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  1. 8. The war at home: family, gender and post-colonial issues in three Vietnam War texts
  2. Marion Gibson
  3. pp. 154-173
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  1. 9. Chicken or hawk? Heroism, masculinity and violence in Vietnam War narratives
  2. Angela K. Smith
  3. pp. 174-194
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  1. 10. Elite women warriors and dog soldiers: gender adaptations in modern war films
  2. Jeffrey Walsh
  3. pp. 195-215
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  1. Select bibliography
  2. pp. 216-220
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 221-223
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