Women at War: Women's Writing and the Perception of Gender Patterns During World War I.
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2015-08-15
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This thesis analyses the work of Nancy Cunard, Jessie Pope, and Vera Brittain to obtain knowledge about the perception of gender patterns during the First World War. It aims to provide an answer to what extent the Great War has contributed to the change in women’s gender expectations in Britain. In doing so, the thesis discusses three authors who lived and wrote during the War. Each chapter discusses one author and three of her poems, and puts them in their socio-cultural context. The three chapters focus on the shift from women as passive actors before the War to gradually becoming more active actors after the War. The thesis concludes that although the War has made an important contribution to the changing perception of gender patterns, it should not be seen as a direct consequence of the war.
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