Women and Evacuation in the Second World War

Femininity, Domesticity and Motherhood

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

AvMaggie Andrews

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Groups of young evacuees, standing on railway stations with gas masks and cardboard suitcases have become an iconic image of wartime Britain, but their histories have eclipsed those of women whose domestic lives were affected. This book explores the effects of this unparalleled interference in the domestic lives of women, looking at the impact on everyday experience and on ideas of femininity, domesticity and motherhood. Maggie Andrews argues that wartime evacuation is important for understanding the experience and the contested meanings of domesticity and motherhood in the 20th century. As this book shows, evacuation represents a significant and unrecognised area of women's war work, and precipitated the rise of competing public discourses about domestic labour and motherhood.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2019-08-08
Mått156 x 234 x 17 mm
Vikt508 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor232
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781441140685

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Introduction1. Myths, Memories and Memorials of Evacuation2. Femininity, Domesticity and Motherhood 1900-19393. Nationalising Hundreds and Thousands of Women: A Domestic Response to a National Problem4. The Challenges of Enforced Intimacy: Looking after Evacuees5. Mothers Encouraged to Wave Goodbye6. Women's Organisations and Evacuation7. Women Were Paid to Care: Teachers, Social Workers and Psychologists8. Afterword: The Post-war Idealisation of the Family in the Wake EvacuationBibliographyIndex

A path-breaking account of the women involved in various aspects of the evacuation process. The book is a rich mixture of analytical precision and personal testimony, presenting a compelling story of the women involved in each stage of evacuation: from mothers waving goodbye to their children, to the women who helped smooth their way, to the women who struggled with the challenges of bringing up other women’s children, through to the—mainly female— teachers who acted in loco parentis.