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- Title
Women of War: Gender, Modernity and the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry.
- Abstract
In service FANYs were confronted with male nudity for the first time; they worked in difficult and distressing contexts, witnessing disembowelled soldiers who suffered from physical and mental trauma; and FANYs undertook traditionally working-class jobs on the front, such as chauffeurs and nurses. The First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (FANY) was the brainchild of Edward Baker. The fact that senior FANY women managed to oust the male founder, Baker, is an evocative demonstration of the ways in which elite recruits transgressed convention in Edwardian Britain.
- Subjects
WOMEN in war; GENDER; BRITISH military; WORLD War I; WOMEN volunteers
- Publication
History, 2021, Vol 106, Issue 373, p847
- ISSN
0018-2648
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/1468-229X.13207