Titlebook: Jamaican Women and the World Wars; On the Front Lines o Dalea Bean Book 2018 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018 First Wor

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,‘Doing Their Little Bit’: Women’s Organisation of Jamaican World War I Efforts, seeing to the Empire’s victory. Eventually, this ‘bit’ became a widespread local movement to produce war supplies and catapulted women in the limelight in ways which would determine new boundaries of citizenship.

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,‘Masculine Duties and Feminine Powers’: Gender and Recruiting Efforts During World War I,s in World War I. This chapter also analyses the gendered rhetoric that became a very real part of the movement to motivate men to enlist. For instance, ‘feminisation’ of men by women was a strategy used to encourage men to fight; one which proved successful for the recruitment movement.

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Book 2018ilians, recruitment of men for service in the British West India Regiment, the local suffrage movement in post-Great War Jamaica, and Jamaican women’s involvement as soldiers in the British Army during the Second World War, this book presents the most extensive and holistic account of Jamaican women’s involvement in the wars.

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Dalea BeanAddresses Jamaican women’s previously unrecognised roles in both World Wars.Provides rare accounts of military service through women‘s personal recollections.Establishes a link between Jamaican women’