Behind the Lines: Gender and the Two World Wars

by Jane / Michel Margaret Randolph / Jenson

Yale University Press, 1987. Hardcover. ISBN 0300036876.

Genres: Nonfiction, History, World War II, World War I, Grad School, Feminism, Reference

336 pages, Hardcover

First published May 1, 1987

Reviews

[Mir]

I read this collection of essays back in college and don't remember any of the papers standing out to me. I'm only listing it for context in case abstract-you is interested in this topic. We read it in a cluster with Paul Fussell, Joanna Burke, Sandra Gilbert, and Virginia Woolf (Three Guineas).

I *think* I remember that Bourke sees less rupture between Victorian and Modern than Fussell does, and disagrees with Gilbert's view of the war as Battle of the Sexes.

These author are all focused on Britain, btw.

[Anne · Rating 5 out of 5]

Informative & thought-provoking about war's impact on women and men. Not optimistic, though.