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THE GREAT WAR THROUGH WOMEN'S EYES.

Authors :
Moravec, Michelle
Bolton, Elizabeth
Hawkins, Kyah
Heggan, Sabrina
Rao, Jeel
Smalley, Hope
Source :
Pennsylvania History; Autumn2017, Vol. 84 Issue 4, p452-461, 10p
Publication Year :
2017

Abstract

How did women serving in World War I frame their encounters with mortality? While the sacrificial mother and the homefront sweetheart are familiar figures from the Great War, tens of thousands of American women who served overseas are left out of gendered depictions of sacrifice and loss. Although these valiant women willingly faced the dangers war brought, how they understood these experiences after the fact is less clear. An underutilized source, their wartime scrapbooks, provides insight into their responses. This article, the results of an honors undergraduate student project at Rosemont College, focuses on visual narratives of wartime nurses, two with Pennsylvania connections and one from New York, as examples of women's efforts to record histories of a war from which they are too often excluded. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
00314528
Volume :
84
Issue :
4
Database :
Complementary Index
Journal :
Pennsylvania History
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
125675137
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.5325/pennhistory.84.4.0452