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Gender and warfare in the twentieth century is a collection of exciting, accessible and very readable essays that span the twentieth century, exploring the ways in which men and women have both represented warfare, and represented themselves as participants in warfare. A range of contributors from different disciplines explore these representations by examining a wide variety of sources: fiction, film, personal diaries, memoirs, non-fiction, letters, oral testimonies and more. The collection ranges from the trenches of the Western Front, through the shell-shocked inter-war years, the civil war in Spain and the disparate battle fronts of World War Two, to the complexities of Vietnam and the late century Hollywood workings and re-workings of these conflicts. The focus on gendered readings provides a thread that binds these essays together to create a comprehensive and interesting picture of the legacy of twentieth-century warfare at the beginning of the new millennium.

War in literature. --- Sex role in literature. --- Women and war in literature. --- War and literature --- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 --- American literature --- World War, 1939-1945 --- World War, 1914-1918 --- English literature --- Literature and the war. --- History and criticism. --- Spain --- History --- Military art and science in literature. --- Literature, Modern --- Literature --- Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies --- Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers --- First World War. --- Hilda Doolittle. --- Richard Aldington. --- Ver a Brittain. --- Vietnam War. --- Western cinema. --- armed services. --- civilian role. --- gender. --- historical events. --- home front. --- political issues. --- quasi-military role. --- twentieth-century warfare. --- women.