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Her War Story

Name: Her War Story
Brand: SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY PRESS
SKU: 9780809322459
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SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY PRESSISBN: 9780809322459

Twentieth-Century Women Write About War

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Edited by Sayre P. Sheldon
Imprint: SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Release Date: October 17, 1999
Format: HARDBACK
Dimensions: 229 x 152 mm
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Pages: 384

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The author chose the 20th century for this collection of women's war writing because women's roles in war have changed dramatically in this century. The 20th century has redefined the meaning of combat and expanded the territory of war to include women in larger numbers than ever before. When the technological advances of modern war began to target civilians, the home front became the front line. Women took an active part in war whether or not by choice, often by moving into occupations previously closed to them. Women covered wars for their newspapers, wrote war propaganda for their governments, published their wartime diaries, described fighting alongside men, and used wartime experience for their fiction and poetry. Women writers also chose the right to imagine war, just as men for centuries had written about war without actually experiencing it. Woman writers anthologized here include Anna Akhmatova, Vera Brittain, Gwendolyn Brooks, Willa Cather, Colette, Martha Gellhorn, H.D., Etty Hillesum, Kathe Kollwitz, Doris Lessing, Amy Lowell, Katherine Mansfield, Mary McCarthy, Toni Morrison, Dorothy Parker, Mary Lee Settle, Gertrude Stein, Huong Tram, Edith Wharton, Virginia Woolf and Mitsuye Yamada.

Sayre P. Sheldon teaches at Boston University. The founding president of Women's Action for Nuclear Disarmament (WAND), she continues to serve as a national board member to the organization under its current name, Women's Action for New Directions.

Part 1 The Great War: Changes for Women; Women at the Front; America Comes In; Mourning and Memory. Part 2 Between the Wars: Trying to Prevent the Next War; Women in Spain; Women Against Fascism. Part 3 World War Again: War Around the World; Women's War Diaries; The Unthinkable; Victory, Occupation and After. Part 4 The Cold War and Beyond: Women In Korea and Vietnam; Women in a Militarized World; Women Making War; Children in War.

"Her War Story immediately engaged me. These women's varied voices underscore how wars seep into the nooks and crannies of everyday life." -Cynthia Enloe, author of Maneuvers: The International Politics of Militarizing Women's Lives "Sheldon's collection of excerpts offers an impressive array of disaparate and passionate voices speaking about humankind's most destructive activity. . . . Sheldon lets the 70 voices speak, from the glamour or necessity of war to its horror. . . . An anthology of this sort was long overdue."-Choice "Sheldon's writers convey the anguish of combat through literary skill and imagination."-Voice Literary Supplement

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