Women And The French Army During The World Wars 1914 1940
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Women And The French Army During The World Wars 1914 1940
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Author : Andrew Orr
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2017-05-01
Women And The French Army During The World Wars 1914 1940 written by Andrew Orr and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-01 with History categories.
A history and analysis of how women worked for the French Army from 1914 to 1940. How did women contribute to the French Army in the World Wars? Drawing on myriad sources, historian Andrew Orr examines the roles and value of the many French women who have been overlooked by historians—those who worked as civilians supporting the military. During the First World War, most officers expected that the end of the war would see a return to prewar conditions, so they tolerated women in supporting roles. But soon after the November 1918 armistice, the French Army fired more than half its female employees. Demobilization created unexpected administrative demands that led to the next rehiring of many women. The army’s female workforce grew slowly and unevenly until 1938 when preparations for war led to another hiring wave; however, officers resisted all efforts to allow women to enlist as soldiers and alternately opposed and ignored proposals to recognize them as long-term employees. Orr’s work offers a critical look at the indispensable wartime roles filled by women behind the lines. “Orr has successfully made the leap into what we have needed for decades: a truly modern and mainstream study of the complex interplay of women and the military in modern society that also takes into account the complex interplay of race and class.” —American Historical Review “Women and the French Army is well researched and provides an engaging read.” —Women in French Studies “What is especially noteworthy about Orr’s book is not the gender history, however, but the military history. Orr’s research provides an excellent reminder that militaries are so much more than their front-facing services. In focusing on the civilian employees of the French army, Orr is able to tease out some of the nuances of this history that would otherwise be obscured.” —French History “This is a fascinating study of intended and unintended consequences, well researched, well-written, and a pleasure to read.” —H-France Review
What Soldiers Do
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Author : Mary Louise Roberts
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2013-05-17
What Soldiers Do written by Mary Louise Roberts and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-17 with History categories.
How do you convince men to charge across heavily mined beaches into deadly machine-gun fire? Do you appeal to their bonds with their fellow soldiers, their patriotism, their desire to end tyranny and mass murder? Certainly—but if you’re the US Army in 1944, you also try another tack: you dangle the lure of beautiful French women, waiting just on the other side of the wire, ready to reward their liberators in oh so many ways. That’s not the picture of the Greatest Generation that we’ve been given, but it’s the one Mary Louise Roberts paints to devastating effect in What Soldiers Do. Drawing on an incredible range of sources, including news reports, propaganda and training materials, official planning documents, wartime diaries, and memoirs, Roberts tells the fascinating and troubling story of how the US military command systematically spread—and then exploited—the myth of French women as sexually experienced and available. The resulting chaos—ranging from flagrant public sex with prostitutes to outright rape and rampant venereal disease—horrified the war-weary and demoralized French population. The sexual predation, and the blithe response of the American military leadership, also caused serious friction between the two nations just as they were attempting to settle questions of long-term control over the liberated territories and the restoration of French sovereignty. While never denying the achievement of D-Day, or the bravery of the soldiers who took part, What Soldiers Do reminds us that history is always more useful—and more interesting—when it is most honest, and when it goes beyond the burnished beauty of nostalgia to grapple with the real lives and real mistakes of the people who lived it.
Women And War In The Twentieth Century
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Author : Nicole Dombrowski Risser
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 1999
Women And War In The Twentieth Century written by Nicole Dombrowski Risser and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with History categories.
First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Women At Work In World Wars I And Ii
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Author : Paul Chrystal
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword History
Release Date : 2024-02-29
Women At Work In World Wars I And Ii written by Paul Chrystal and has been published by Pen and Sword History this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-02-29 with History categories.
This book is about women in World Wars I & II - women working in factories and on farms, or toiling perilously in field stations just behind the front lines, in inhospitable hospitals and convalescent homes. It is, therefore, about the prodigious contribution women made to the war efforts from 1914-1918 and 1939-1945, standing in for the men who had left their places of work for the various theatres of war from Greece and Italy to Belgium, from Mesopotamia to France. Their tasks were many and various: keeping the troops supplied with shells, bullets and explosives, keeping the nation from starving to death, keeping hundreds of thousands of wounded troops alive so that they might fight another day. The book is, in short, the uplifting but sometimes tragic story of the many women who stepped up to work in the factories, hospitals, field stations, in transport and in civil defense, on the farms and shipyards, or signed up to the various military and civil services during the two world wars of the 20th century, ‘wars to end all wars…’. The book is different because it deals with women’s labour in both world wars and in all occupations, it covers the discrimination and prejudice they faced from men at every level, military and civilian, even when they had demonstrated beyond doubt that they were quick learners, industrious and proficient, and usually as good as any man. The book raises the embarrassing question why it has it taken so long for the prodigious contribution women made in both wars to be recognized, and why some women workers still remain air brushed from our military history after more than a century. As it turned out, little was beyond their capabilities and it is reasonable to suppose that without their huge efforts and accomplishments both wars might have turned out very differently for us.
The French Army In The First World War
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Author : Ian Sumner
language : en
Publisher: Images of War
Release Date : 2016
The French Army In The First World War written by Ian Sumner and has been published by Images of War this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with History categories.
* A broad selection of over 200 photographs recording the French army during the Great War * Previously unpublished photographs showing the experience of the French soldiers and the conditions in which they served * A graphic introduction to the history of an army that has often been neglected in English accounts of the conflict * A companion vo
French Women And The First World War
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Author : Margaret H. Darrow
language : en
Publisher: Berg 3pl
Release Date : 2000-08
French Women And The First World War written by Margaret H. Darrow and has been published by Berg 3pl this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-08 with History categories.
In tracing stories about war heroines, but also about villainesses like Mata Hari, this study shows what these stories reveal about French understanding of the First World War, and their hopes and fears for the future.
Women And The First World War
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Author : Susan R. Grayzel
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2024-01-17
Women And The First World War written by Susan R. Grayzel and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-01-17 with History categories.
In this revised version of a ground-breaking global history of women and the First World War, Susan Grayzel shows the multiple ways in which women faced the enormous challenges the war presented, both the losses as well as the opportunities that the war provided. The First World War was a total war requiring the mobilisation of millions of both civilians and combatants. It decisively shaped the modern world. A century after the signing of the last peace treaty to end this conflict, its experiences and legacies for women continue to inspire debate and interest. With new evidence from the tremendous outpouring of scholarship on women in all participant states, including those in occupied territories, Europe and its overseas empires, Asia, the Middle East, Africa and the United States over the last twenty years, this edition greatly expands the coverage of the war geographically while continuing to showcase diverse women’s voices. Topical in its approach, it allows for a thorough exploration of the intersectional experiences of women. Including new documents highlighting the ways in which women wrote their wars and that detail the impact of this conflict on women of different statuses and geographies, this book opens the door to further inquiry on the women of the First World War. With documents providing first-hand accounts, a chronology and a glossary, the book is an ideal text for students studying the First World War or the history of women.
Facing The Victorious Turks
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Author : Andrew Orr
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2024-09-12
Facing The Victorious Turks written by Andrew Orr and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-09-12 with History categories.
"In Facing the Victorious Turks, Andrew Orr argues that French military, intelligence, and diplomatic officials' Orientalism and racism led them to misunderstand the Turkish War of Independence by placing Europeans at the center of their analysis of the Middle East. French observers' flawed understanding of Muslims and Islam fed conspiracy theories that distorted their understanding of Germany, the emerging Soviet Union, Middle Eastern politics, and colonialism. It allowed them to perceive and report the danger of Middle East-wide revolts without questioning whether it was European rule itself that was causing the political turmoil. French military leaders were thus able to escape the sort of self-reflection that might have exposed the exploitative nature of colonialism and pushed them to question the moral and strategic justifications for colonial rule"--
Women As Veterans In Britain And France After The First World War
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Author : Alison S. Fell
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2018-07-12
Women As Veterans In Britain And France After The First World War written by Alison S. Fell and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-12 with History categories.
The legacies service in the First World War had on women's lives and the privileges it afforded some of them.
Creative Women Of The Lost Generation
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Author : Kimberly Francis
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2023-08-11
Creative Women Of The Lost Generation written by Kimberly Francis and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08-11 with History categories.
This book explores the creative women of the "Lost Generation" including painters, sculptors, film makers, writers, singers, composers, dancers, and impresarios who all pursued artistic careers in the years leading up to, during, and following World War I. These women’s stories, and the art they created, commissioned, mobilized as propaganda, and performed shed light on the shifting nature of gender norms during this period. With the combined knowledge and expertise from different contributors, chapters in this book consider how modernist practices continued their development in women’s hands during the war through networks forged by and for women artists in the absence of their male colleagues. These chapters also reflect on how, in many cases, the dissolution of these structures after the November 1918 armistice had detrimental consequences for their professional trajectories. This book challenges the place creative women currently hold in the historical record while also clarifying how these artists and impresarios contributed to wartime and post-war culture. This collection of essays will be of great value to scholars interested in social and gender history of the twentieth century, as well as historians of the arts through offering nuanced understanding of the essential work of female creative professionals, highlighting artistic women’s experiences of resistance, mourning, and reinvention in the shadow of the Great War.