Jamaican Women and the World Wars On the Front Lines of Change /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Bean, Dalea (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Θέματα: Military history.; Women.; Social history.; Imperialism.; Gender identity.; History of Military.; Women's Studies.; Social History.; Imperialism and Colonialism.; Gender and Sexuality.

This book highlights the important, yet often forgotten, roles that Jamaican women played in the World Wars. Predicated on the notion that warfare has historically been an agent of change, Dalea Bean contends that traces of this truism were in Jamaica and illustrates that women have historically bee...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: War Can No Longer be Confined to the Battlefield: Situating Jamaica in World Wars I and II
• Chapter 3: Doing Their Little Bit: Women's Organisation of Jamaican World War I Efforts
• Chapter 4: Masculine Duties and Feminine Powers: Gender and Recruiting Efforts during World War I
• Chapter 5: Votes for (some) women now!: The Road to Political Franchise in the Aftermath of War
• Chapter 6: The Woman's Place is in the War: Continuity and Change in World War II
• Chapter 7: We Were Soldiers: Jamaican Women Enlist in World War II
• Chapter 8: Conclusion
• Index.