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

Contents

v Acknowledgments vii Introduction: Gardening in the New Century 1 Part I. The First World War Chapter 1. Ladies of Leisure and Women of Action 15 Chapter 2. The Land Girls 33 Chapter 3. Sowing the Seeds of Victory 63 Part II. The Second World War Chapter 4. The Aftermath of War: Gender and Agriculture in the Interwar Years 93 Chapter 5. “A Call to Farms” 106 Chapter 6. Freedom from Want: The Role of the Victory Garden in the Second World War 131 Part III. Cultivation and Cultural Transcendence Chapter 7. The Women’s Land Army, Victory Gardens, and Cultural Transcendence 165 Epilogue: Garden as Metaphor 183 Notes 189 Bibliography 209 Index 221 Contents ...