Gender and warfare in the twentieth century Textual representations

Gender and Warfare in the Twentieth Centuryis a collection of essays that explores the ways in which men and women have represented warfare, and represented themselves as participants in warfare. A range of contributors from different disciplines explore these representations by examining a wide variety of sources: fiction, film, personal diaries, memoirs, non-fiction, letters, oral testimonies and more. The collection ranges from the trenches of the Western Front, through the shell-shocked inter-war years, the civil war in Spain and the disparate battle fronts of World War II, to the complexities of Vietnam and the late century Hollywood workings and re-workings of these conflicts.

Angela K. Smith is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Plymouth.