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Andrews, Maggie (2015) Nationalising Hundreds and Thousands of Women': a Domestic Response to a National Problem. Women’s History Review, 24 (1). pp. 112-130. ISSN Print: 0961-2025, Online:
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The wartime evacuee has become a symbol of the home front in World War Two. However, behind the iconic image lie more complex histories. The government evacuation scheme both encouraged and enforced many homeowners to share their private domestic space with strangers. The preparation, organisation and monitoring of this scheme led to unparalleled public interference into the private space of the home. The enforced domestic intimacy this led to resulted in the voluntary and governmental agencies becoming increasingly entangled in a complex, shifting understanding of ideas of the family, domestic labour, motherhood and the home during wartime.
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| Additional Information: | Staff and students at the University of Worcester can access the full-text via the UW online library search. External users should check availability with their local library or Interlibrary Requests Service. |
| Uncontrolled Discrete Keywords: | World War Two, evacuation, motherhood |
| Subjects: | D History General and Old World > D History (General) D History General and Old World > D History (General) > D731 World War II |
| Divisions: | College of Arts, Humanities and Education > School of Humanities |
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| Depositing User: | Maggie Andrews |
| Date Deposited: | 18 Apr 2016 09:28 |
| Last Modified: | 17 Jun 2020 17:10 |
| URI: | https://eprints.worc.ac.uk/id/eprint/4327 |
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