'Gender and warfare in the twentieth century' is a collection of essays that explores the way in which issues of gender impacted upon twentieth-century warfare. A range of specialist contributors provide exciting, accessible and very readable essays covering a range of wars and textual media.

List of contributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction1. 'What part have I now that you have come together?' Richard Aldington on war, gender and textual representation - Caroline Zilboorg2. Shell-shocked in Somerville: Vera Brittain's post-traumatic stress disorder - Andrea Peterson3. Gender, war and writing in Aldous Huxley's 'Farcical history of Richard Greenow' - Erik Svarny4. How gender serves Trotskyism: The Spanish civil war in Ken Loach's 'Land and Freedom' - Alan Munton5. Clothes and uniform in the theatre of Facism: Clemence Dane and Virginia Woolf - Jenny Hartley6. Women and the Battle of the Atlantic 1939-45: Contemporary texts, propaganda and life-writing - G.H. Bennett7. 'The best disguise': Performing femininities for clandestine purposes during the Second World War - Juliette Pattinson8. The war at home: Family, gender and post-colonial issues in three Vietnam war texts - Marion Gibson9. Chicken or hawk? Heroism, masculinity and violence in Vietnam war narratives - Angela K. Smith10. Elite women warriors and dog soldiers: Gender adaptations in modern war film - Jeff WalshSelect bibliographyIndex

Gender and warfare in the twentieth century is a collection of exciting, accessible and very readable essays that span the twentieth century, exploring the ways in which men and women have both represented warfare, and represented themselves as participants in warfare. A range of contributors from different disciplines explore these representations by examining a wide variety of sources: fiction, film, personal diaries, memoirs, non-fiction, letters, oral testimonies and more. The collection ranges from the trenches of the Western Front, through the shell-shocked inter-war years, the civil war in Spain and the disparate battle fronts of World War Two, to the complexities of Vietnam and the late century Hollywood workings and re-workings of these conflicts. The focus on gendered readings provides a thread that binds these essays together to create a comprehensive and interesting picture of the legacy of twentieth-century warfare at the beginning of the new millennium.