Product Description: Ellen La Motte (1873-1961) and Mary Borden (1886-1968) are two of the best known American nurses who wrote about their experiences working in the same field hospital on the Western front during World War I. La Motte's "The Backwash of War" (1916) and Borden's "The Forbidden Zone" (1929) present in powerful, vivid and often haunting prose each woman's acute observations of the stark realities of battle and the severe conditions under which military medicine is practised...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Presents a collection of women's writings from World War I by a diverse group of citizens, soldiers, nurses, journalists, activists, wives, and mothers, whose lives were altered by the war

Collects the works of English poets including Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, Christina Rossetti, and Dorothy Wordsworth

Product Description: This collection of essays looks at literary representations of space--physical, psychological, political, and cultural. The book examines the relationship between gender and geography in a broad array of texts and contexts, from the early novel to contemporary Caribbean and Chicana literature...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

The first book to assess the impact of feminist criticism on comparative literature, Borderwork recharts the intellectual and institutional boundaries on that discipline. The seventeen essays collected here, most published for the first time, together call for the contextualization of the study of comparative literature within the areas of discourse, culture, ideology, race, and gender.

Essays analyze the two world wars in respect to gender politics and reassesses the differences between men and women in relation to war

Essays in feminist criticism look at the fiction of Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, George Sand, George Meredith, Thomas Hardy, and others

Essays in feminist criticism look at the fiction of Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, George Sand, George Meredith, Thomas Hardy, and others