WHN Annual Conference 2014


Home Fronts: Gender, War and Conflict

23rd Women’s History Network Annual Conference
5-7 September 2014 at the University of Worcester

Annual Conference 2014

Image provided by -The Worcestershire Archive and Archaeology Service

Papers drew upon the perspectives of women’s and gender history to discuss practical and emotional survival on the Home Front during war and conflict. Themes included:

  • Food, domesticity, marriage and the ordinariness of everyday life on the Home Front
  • The arts, leisure and entertainment during military conflict
  • Women’s working lives on the Home Front
  • Shifting relations of power  around gender, class, ethnicity, religion or politics
  • Women’s individual or collective strategies and tactics for survival in wartime
  • Case studies illuminating the particularity of the Home Front in cities, small towns or rural areas
  • Outsiders on the Home Front including attitudes to prisoners of war, refugees, immigrants and travellers
  • Comparative Studies of the Home Front across time and  geographical location
  • Representation,  writing and remembering the Home Front

For information please contact maggie.andrews@worc.ac.uk .