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Cultivating Victory : The Women's Land Army and the Victory Garden Movement.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: PIttsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2013Copyright date: ©2021Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (241 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780822978572
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Cultivating VictoryDDC classification:
  • 635.09
LOC classification:
  • S455
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Gardening in the New Century -- Part 1. The First World War -- Chapter 1. Ladies of Leisure and Women of Action -- Chapter 2. The Land Girls -- Chapter 3. Sowing the Seeds of Victory -- Part II. The Second World War -- Chapter 4. The Aftermath of War: Gender and Agriculture in the Interwar Years -- Chapter 5. "A Call to Farms" -- Chapter 6. Freedom from Want: The Role of the Victory Garden in the Second World War -- Part III. Cultivation and Cultural Transcendence -- Chapter 7. The Women's Land Army, Victory Gardens, and Cultural Transcendence -- Epilogue: Garden as Metaphor -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: A compelling study of the sea change brought about in politics, society, and gender roles during World Wars I and II by campaigns to recruit Women's Land Armies in Great Britain and the United States to cultivate victory gardens. Cecilia Gowdy-Wygant compares and contrasts the outcomes of war in both nations as seen through women's ties to labor, agriculture, the home, and the environment. She sheds new light on the cultural legacies left by the Women's Land Armies and their major role in shaping national and personal identities.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Gardening in the New Century -- Part 1. The First World War -- Chapter 1. Ladies of Leisure and Women of Action -- Chapter 2. The Land Girls -- Chapter 3. Sowing the Seeds of Victory -- Part II. The Second World War -- Chapter 4. The Aftermath of War: Gender and Agriculture in the Interwar Years -- Chapter 5. "A Call to Farms" -- Chapter 6. Freedom from Want: The Role of the Victory Garden in the Second World War -- Part III. Cultivation and Cultural Transcendence -- Chapter 7. The Women's Land Army, Victory Gardens, and Cultural Transcendence -- Epilogue: Garden as Metaphor -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

A compelling study of the sea change brought about in politics, society, and gender roles during World Wars I and II by campaigns to recruit Women's Land Armies in Great Britain and the United States to cultivate victory gardens. Cecilia Gowdy-Wygant compares and contrasts the outcomes of war in both nations as seen through women's ties to labor, agriculture, the home, and the environment. She sheds new light on the cultural legacies left by the Women's Land Armies and their major role in shaping national and personal identities.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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