Gender and warfare in the twentieth century : textual representations / edited by Angela K. Smith.

'What part have I now that you have come together?' : Richard Aldington on war, gender and textual representation / Caroline Zilboorg -- Shell-shocked in Somerville : Vera Brittain's post-traumatic stress disorder / Andrea Peterson -- Gender, war and writing in Aldous Huxley's 'Farcical History of Richard Greenow' / Erik Svarny -- How gender serves Trotskyism : the Spanish Civil War in Ken Loach's Land and Freedom / Alan Munton -- Clothes and uniform in the theatre of fascism : Clemence Dane and Virginia Woolf / Jenny Hartley -- Women and the battle of the Atlantic 1939-45 : contemporary texts, propaganda, and life writing / G.H. Bennett -- 'Best disguise' : performing femininities for clandestine purposes during the Second World War / Juliette Pattinson -- War at home : family, gender and post-colonial issues in three Vietnam War texts / Marion Gibson -- Chicken or hawk? : heroism, masculinity and violence in Vietnam War narratives / Angela K. Smith -- Elite women warriors and dog soldiers : gender adaptations in modern war films / Jeffrey Walsh.

Spanning the 20th century, this collection of accessible and very readable essays explores the ways in which men and women have both represented warfare, and represented themselves as participants in warfare.

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