Cultivating Victory: The Women's Land Army and the Victory Garden Movement

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189 Introduction: Gardening in the New Century Epigraph: Gilbert Mills, Ted Rolfe, and Billy Faber, “There’ll Be Tomatoes Where the Roses Used to Grow” (New York: Arrow Music, 1945). This song was sent to the War Food Administration Publicity Department to be used “free of royalties” for the war effort. 1. For further analysis of the significance of women’s national and international organization for wartime agricultural production, see Dorthea Abbott, Librarian in the Land Army (Stratford-Upon-Avon: D. Abbott, 1984); Kate Adie, Corsets to Camouflage: Women and War (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2004); Diane Bardsley and Miklos Soltesz, Land Girls: In a Man’s World, 1939–1946 (Dunedin, NZ: University of Otago Press, 2000); Amy Bentley, Eating for Victory: Food Rationing and the Politics of Domesticity (Urbana: University of Chicago, 1998); Susan Briggs, The Home Front: War Years in Britain, 1939–1945 (London: George Weidenfeld and Nicolson Ltd., 1975); Stephanie A. Carpenter, On the Farm Front: The Women’s Land Army in World War II (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2003); Melissa Hardie, Digging for Memories: The Women’s Land Army in Cornwall (Penzance, Cornwall: Hypatia Trust, 2006); Gervas Huxley, Lady Denman, G. B. E. (London: Chatto and Windus, 1962); Inver Primary School, Alisa Munro, Land Army (Hamilton: SLIC, 2006), http://www.wardetectives .info/projects/wardetectives/wewillremember/inve0052.htm; Peter King, Women Rule the Plot: The Story of the 100 Year Fight to Establish Women’s Place in Farm and Garden (London: Duckworth, 1999); Laura J. Lawson, City Bountiful: A Century of Community Gardening in America (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005); Penny Martelet, “The Women’s Land Army, World War I,” in Clio Was a Woman: Studies in the History of American Women, ed. Mabel E. Deutrich and Virginia Cardwell Purdy (Washington, Notes D.C.: Howard University Press, 1980), 135–45; Bob Powell and Nigel Westacott, The Women’s Land Army, 1939–1950 (Stroud: Sutton Publishing, 2000); Nicola Tryer and Rosemary Davies, They Fought in the Fields: The Women’s Land Army: The Story of a Forgotten Victory (Oxford: ISIS Audio Books, 2002); Carol Twinch, Women on the Land (Cambridge: Lutterworth Press, 1990); Elaine Weiss, The Fruits of Victory: The Women’s Land Army of America in the Great War (Dulles: Potomac Books, 2008). 2. For more discussion on the culture of abundance, see Bentley, Eating for Victory, 142–70; Lizabeth Cohen, A Consumer’s Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America (New York: Vintage Books, 2003), 1–15; Thomas Hine, I Want That! How We All Became Shoppers: A Cultural History (New York: Harper Collins, 2002), 3–40; Robert M. Collins, More: The Politics of Economic Growth in Postwar America (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000), 14–39; David Morris Potter, People of Plenty: Economic Abundance and the American Character (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1954). 3. For more information on how the wartime food shortages altered British culture, see Susan Bordo, “Hunger as Ideology,” in Eating Culture, ed. Ron Scapp and Brian Seitz (Albany: SUNY Press, 1998); John Burnett, England Eats Out: A Social History of Eating Out in England from 1830 to the Present (Harlow: Pearson, 2004); Reay Tannahill, Food in History (New York: Stein and Day Publishers, 1973), 323, 326–27, 373, 376–78; Arnold Palmer, Moveable Feasts: A Reconnaissance of the Origins and Consequences of Fluctuations in Meal-Times with Special Attention to the Introduction of Luncheon and Afternoon Tea (London: Oxford University Press, 1952); C. Anne Wilson, Food and Drink in Britain (Chicago: Academy of Chicago Publishers, 1991); Roy C. Wood, The Sociology of the Meal (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1995). 4. Harriot Stanton Blatch, Mobilizing Woman-Power (New York: Womans Press, 1918), 66. 5. Lady Gertrude Denman, “Introduction,” in Land Girl: A Manual for Volunteers in the Women’s Land Army, ed. W. E. Shewell-Cooper (London: English Universities Press, printing date unknown), iii. Chapter 1. Ladies of Leisure and Women of Action Epigraph: Harriot Stanton Blatch, Mobilizing Woman-Power (New York: Womans Press, 1918), 102. 1. Colin Bingham. The Affairs of Women: A Modern Miscellany (Sydney: Currawong, 1969), 134. 2. Daniel T. Rodgers, Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age (Cambridge , Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1998); Daniel De Leon, “Lady Warwick,” People (New York) 9, no. 21 (20 August 1899): 1. 3. For more discussion of the transnational cultural exchange of ideas in the international women’s movement see Leila J. Rupp, Worlds of Women: The Making of an International Women’s Movement (Princeton, N...