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"This Element examines women warriors as vehicles of mobilisation. It argues that women warrior figures from the mid-nineteenth century until the end of the Second World War are best understood as examples of 'palimpsestic memory' and of 'travelling memory'"--

This Element examines women warriors as vehicles of mobilisation. It argues that women warrior figures from the mid-nineteenth century until the end of the Second World War are best understood as examples of 'palimpsestic memory', as the way they were represented reflected new contexts while retaining traces of legendary models such as Joan of Arc, and of 'travelling memory', as their stories crossed geographical borders and were re-told and re-imagined. It considers both the instrumentalisation of women warriors by state actors to mobilise populations in the world wars, and by non-state actors in resistance, anti-colonial and feminist movements. Fell's analysis of a broad range of global conflicts helps us to understand who these actors were, what motivated them, and what meanings armed women embodied for them, enabling a fresh understanding of the woman warrior as an archetype in modern warfare.

Cover; Half-title page; Series page; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Women as Veterans in the Commemorative Landscapes of Interwar Britain and France; 2 The Afterlives of First World War Heroines; 3 'That Glorious Comradeship': Female Veteran Groups in the 1920s; 4 Writing as a Veteran: Women's War Memoirs; 5 Women's Wartime Industrial Action and the Limits of Female Veteran Identity; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index

This is the story of how women in France and Britain between 1915 and 1933 appropriated the cultural identity of female war veteran in order to have greater access to public life and a voice in a political climate in which women were rarely heard on the public stage. The 'veterans' covered by this history include former nurses, charity workers, secret service agents and members of resistance networks in occupied territory, as well as members of the British auxiliary corps. What unites these women is how they attempted to present themselves as 'female veterans' in order to gain social advantages and give themselves the right to speak about the war and its legacies. Alison S. Fell also considers the limits of the identity of war veteran for women, considering as an example the wartime and post-war experiences of the female industrial workers who led episodes of industrial action

Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 Then: Second Wave Feminism in France -- 1.Before Les Femmes s'entetent: The `Bermuda Triangle' of French Feminism? / Sian Reynolds -- 2.1975: The Year of Women / Imogen Long -- 3.From Muse to Insoumuse: Delphine Seyrig, Videaste / Grace An -- pt. 2 Then and Now: Feminism and Public Arenas -- 4.Work-Family Reconciliation Policy in France: Challenging or Reinforcing the Gender Division of Domestic and Care Work since the 1970s? / Jan Windebank -- 5.Feminist Publishing in France 1975-2000: A Quest for Legitimacy / Fanny Mazzone -- 6.Parole(s) de Femmes: From Le Torchon brule to Les Nouvelles News / Maggie Allison -- 7.Utopian Gaiety: French Lesbian Activism and the Politics of Pleasure (1974-2016) / Tamara Chaplin -- 8.`La femme du soldat inconnu': Feminism and French lieux de memoire / Alison S. Fell --