Fell, AS (2018) Female War Icons: Visual Representations of Women’s Contribution to the First World War in France and Britain in 1914–1918 and 2014–2018. L'Homme ZFG - European Journal of Feminist History, 29 (2). pp. 35-49. ISSN 1016-362X
Abstract
This article compares and contrasts the representation of women’s roles in the First World War in France and Britain during two key moments in which the war’s cultural memory has been constructed: at the end of the war and during its centenary years. In order to do so, it first considers two visual sources dating from 1918: the film “La Femme française pendant la guerre” (The Frenchwoman in Wartime) made by the Section cinémagraphique de l’armée (Army cinema unit), and photographs of British women’s war work commissioned by the Photographic Section of the Ministry of Information. It then analyses the representation of women and the First World War in two museum exhibitions that were both launched in anticipation of the public interest that would be generated by the centenary of the conflict: the First World War galleries in the Imperial War Museum in London, which opened in 2014, and the permanent exhibition in the Musée de la Grande Guerre (Museum of the Great War) in Meaux, which first opened its doors in 2011.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | This is an author produced version of an article published in L'Homme. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Languages Cultures & Societies (Leeds) > French (Leeds) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number Arts & Humanities Research Council AHRC AH/L008297/1 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 26 Mar 2018 09:18 |
Last Modified: | 26 Nov 2019 01:39 |
Published Version: | https://www.univie.ac.at/Geschichte/LHOMME/cms/ind... |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | University of Vienna (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Verlage) |
Identification Number: | 10.14220/lhom.2018.29.2.35 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:128974 |