Behind the lines : gender and the two world wars / Margaret Randolph Higonnet ... [et al.], editors.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Rewriting history . Joan w. Scott -- The double helix / Margaret R. Higonnet and Patrice L.-R. Higgonnet -- The new Eve and the old Adam : French women's condition at the turn of the century / Michelle Perrot -- Rivers and Sassoon : the inscription of male gender anxieties / Elaine Showalter -- Vera Brittain's Testament / Lynne Layton -- Growing up banished : a reading of Anne Frank and Ette Hillesum / Yasmine Ergas -- More Minerva than Mars : the French women's rights campaign and the First World War / Steven C. Hause -- Women's military services in the First World War Britain / Henny Gould -- The German nation's obligation to the heroes' widows of world War I / Karin Hausen -- Redefining resistance : women's activism in wartime France / Paula Schwartz -- American women and the discourse of the democratic family in World War II / Sonya Michel -- American women and industrial unionism during world War II / Ruth Milkman -- Waiting for the captive sons of France : prisoner of war wives, 1940-1945 / Sarah Fishman -- Soldier's heart : literary men, literary women and the Great War / Sandra M. Gilbert -- "This is my rifle, this is my gun" : World War II and the blitz on women / Susan Gubar -- Some peculiarities of social policy concerning women in wartime and postwar Britain / Denise Riley -- The liberation and new rights for French women / Jane Jenson -- German women's memories of World War II / Annemarie Tröger.