Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS vii
4. INTRODUCTION 1
5. PART ONE. Reconceptualizing the Two World Wars
6. Rewriting History 21
7. The Double Helix 31
8. PART TWO. Sexual Identities in Conflict
9. The New Eve and the Old Adam: Changes in French Women's Condition at the Turn of the Century 51
10. Rivers and Sassoon: The Inscription of Male Gender Anxieties 61
11. Vera Brittain's Testament(s) 70
12. Growing up Banished: A Reading of Anne Frank and Etty Hillesum 84
13. PART THREE. Wartime Politics and the Construction of Gender
14. More Minerva than Mars: The French Women's Rights Campaign and the First World War 99
15. Women's Military Services in First World War Britain 114
16. The German Nation's Obligations to the Heroes' Widows of World War I 126
17. Redefining Resistance: Women's Activism in Wartime France 141
18. American Women and the Discourse of the Democratic Family in World War II 154
19. American Women and Industrial Unionism during World War II 168
20. Waiting for the Captive Sons of France: Prisoner of War Wives, 1940-1945 182
21. PART FOUR. Postwar Traces
22. Soldier's Heart: Literary Men, Literary Women, and the Great War 197
23. "This Is My Rifle, This Is My Gun": World War II and the Blitz on Women 227
24. Some Peculiarities of Social Policy concerning Women in Wartime and Postwar Britain 260
25. The Liberation and New Rights for French Women 272
26. German Women's Memories of World War II 285
27. INDEX 301
28. CONTRIBUTORS 309