Women and Evacuation in the Second World War
Author: Maggie Andrews
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2019-08-08
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 1441140689
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIntroduction ; 1. Myths, Memories and Memorials of Evacuation ; 2. Femininity, Domesticity and Motherhood 1900-1939 ; 3. Nationalising Hundreds and Thousands of Women: A Domestic Response to a National Problem ; 4. The Challenges of Enforced Intimacy: Looking after Evacuees ; 5. Mothers Encouraged to Wave Goodbye ; 6. Women's Organisations and Evacuation ; 7. Women Were Paid to Care: Teachers, Social Workers and Psychologists ; 8. Afterword: The Post-war Idealisation of the Family in the Wake Evacuation.