The World Wars Through the Female Gaze

by Jean Gallagher

Book Overview

For some women writers and photographers during the two world wars--Edith Wharton, Mildred Aldrich, Martha Gellhorn, Lee Miller, H.D., and Gertrude Stein--the construction of the female subject as an observer of combat became a vital concern. Their explorations of vision took place against the backdrop of a larger shift in Western culture's understanding of what "seeing" meant in common practice and philosophical discourse alike. The role of visuality...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809322080
• ISBN13: 9780809322084
• Release Date: December 1998
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"