Politics and Aesthetics of the Female Form, 1908-1918

• Main Author: Williams, Georgina (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Great Britain-History.; Women.; Social history.; Europe-History-1492-.; Civilization-History.; History of Britain and Ireland.; Women's Studies.; Social History.; History of Modern Europe.; Cultural History.

This book examines the pictorial representation of women in Great Britain both before and during the First World War. It focuses in particular on imagery related to suffrage movements, recruitment campaigns connected to the war, advertising, and Modernist art movements including Vorticism. This inve...