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War Girls: The First Aid Nursing Yeomanry in the First World War
Contemporary Review, Summer, 2006
War Girls: The First Aid Nursing Yeomanry in the First World War. Janet Lee. Manchester University Press. [pounds sterling]30.00. xiii 269 pages. ISBN 0-7190-6712-X. Manchester University Press has built up something of a reputation for what used to be called 'social history' and this study fully measures up to that reputation.
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The First World War was the first to mobilise women in a total war effort, in factories, on the farms and in the military. The FANYs were an innovation and a successful one that appealed to unmarried women from comfortable backgrounds. This examination looks at the wide range of work these young women undertook, as drivers, nurses, mechanics and clerks. The text is marked by modern feminist tags--'gendered lives,' 'empowerment' and so forth--which can be very tiresome unless one happens to see history from that viewpoint. But this does not lessen the book's worth as a valuable examination of an important aspect of the war that is based on personal recollections and considerable archival research. (G.F.B.)
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