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The Women's Land Army in First World War Britain

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  • © 2014

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  1. Bonnie White

    1. St Francis Xavier University, Canada

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    • Bonnie White
    Pages 1-8

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

    • Bonnie White
    Pages 9-28

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

    • Bonnie White
    Pages 29-47

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

    • Bonnie White
    Pages 48-78

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

    • Bonnie White
    Pages 79-101

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

    • Bonnie White
    Pages 102-130

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

    • Bonnie White
    Pages 131-153

  9. Conclusion

    • Bonnie White
    Pages 154-159

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 160-207
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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.

Authors and Affiliations

  • St Francis Xavier University, Canada

    Bonnie White

About the author

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

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