Women and Evacuation in the Second World War —— Femininity, Domesticity and Motherhood

----- 第二次世界大战中的妇女与疏散:女性气质、家庭生活与母性

ISBN: 9781441140685 出版年：2019 页码：233 Maggie Andrews Bloomsbury Publishing

Groups of evacuees have become an iconic image of wartime Britain, but their histories have eclipsed those of women whose domestic lives were affected. This book explores the effects of this unparalleled interference in the domestic lives of women, looking at the impact on everyday experience and on ideas of femininity, domesticity and motherhood. Maggie Andrews argues that wartime evacuation is important for understanding the experience and the contested meanings of domesticity and motherhood in the twentieth century. As this book shows, evacuation represents a significant and unrecognised area of women's war work, and precipitated the rise of competing public discourses about domestic labour and motherhood.