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As the literature on the First World War continues to grow, women’s experiences of this period remain largely obscure. This is particularly the case for Canadian and Newfoundland women, most of whom were non-combatants geographically separated from the battlefields by vast distances. Women were not bystanders in the war, quietly knitting for the duration: they were actively engaged in wartime society (and even part of the military, in the case of Nursing Sisters), deeply affected by the vagaries of war. The aim of this collection is to bring together major elements of women’s wartime experience, as a step towards meaningfully (re-)inserting women into the historical narratives of Canada and Newfoundland at war, 1914-1918.
We invite submissions from scholars in all disciplines whose work addresses any of the multiple ways in which women in Canada and/or Newfoundland experienced and responded to the First World War. We particularly invite work which reflects the racial, ethnic, linguistic, religious, class, and/or regional differences found among women in the two Dominions at that time.
Topics may include (but are not limited to):
- Voluntary war work through war charities, churches, women’s organizations, etc.
- Non-traditional paid work taken on during the war
- VADs at home and overseas
- Nursing Sisters at home and overseas
- Feminist responses to the war
- Suffrage and the 1917 Election
- Immigrant and/or enemy alien women
- French-Canadian women
- Native women
- Grief and commemoration
- The WCTU and wartime prohibition
- Creative responses (poetry, literature, music, art, etc.)
- Pacifism and conscientious objection
- Imperialism and patriotism
- Women and propaganda
- The popular press (women’s pages of newspapers, Everywoman’s World, Chatelaine)
- Girls and the war
- White feather campaigns and/or other instances of women trying to influence men
- Women as mothers, grandmothers, daughters, sisters, friends of combatants
Interested scholars should send a short (250–500 words) abstract of their proposed paper and a one page CV to either of the editors, in Word, Wordperfect, or pdf format, by April 1, 2008.
Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by May 15, 2008.
Authors of accepted proposals will be asked to submit a completed essay of 5,000 – 7,000 words aimed at a 1st or 2nd year university level, formatted in Chicago style, no later than October 1, 2008.
Questions, enquiries and submissions may be sent to either Sarah Glassford (sglassfo@uottawa.ca) or Amy Shaw (amy.shaw@uleth.ca).
Please feel free to circulate this call for papers to anyone who might be interested.
Sarah Glassford
SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow
AMS Nursing History Research Unit
University of Ottawa
Amy Shaw
Assistant Professor
Department of History
University of Lethbridge
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