Description: Library stamps/marks/labels/pocket glue residue, well toned, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover.; "Thus British women prepared for war, seeing it not so much as the organised destruction of mothers' sons, but as symbolising citizenship, social legitimation and personal challenge. If in this they were not very different from their male contemparies, it is because the gap between the social opportunities and expectations of women and men had begun, very slowly, to narrow. The mid-Victorian 'women's mission' was disappearing. But it was not replaced by a strong dissenting feminist voice, or one which had much power to bargain over the conditions of women's participation in the public sphere. After 1902, female nurses were brought into the army hospital system largely as numeri.
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