The Women's Land Army in First World War Britain

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

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   Pages 1-8

3. Answering the Call: The Formation of the Women’s Land Army

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   Pages 9-28

4. Female Preparedness, Male Authority: Organisers and the Board of Agriculture

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   Pages 29-47

5. Gender, Service, Patriotism: Promoting the Land Army in Wartime Britain

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   Pages 48-78

6. ‘The Lasses Are Massing’: The Land Army in England and Wales

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   Pages 79-101

7. ‘Respectable Women’: The Land Army in Scotland

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   Pages 102-130

8. Back to the Land: The Land Army after 1918

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9. Conclusion

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10. Back Matter

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Between 1917 and 1919 women enlisted in the Women's Land Army, a national organisation with the task of increasing domestic food production. Behind the scenes organisers laboured to not only recruit an army of women workers, but to also dispel public fears that Britain's Land Girls would be defeminized and devalued by their wartime experiences.

• Women's Land Army
• women and war
• First World War Britain
• women's war work
• Britain
• England
• First World War
• Scotland

• St Francis Xavier University, Canada

  Bonnie White

Bonnie White is a Lecturer in the Department of History at St. Francis Xavier University, Canada.

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