LibGuides: Social Studies: The Role of Women

PDFs

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Women and the War
A detailed description of the role of women during WWI in Europe and the U.S. From the "History of World War I - Volume 3".
Home Front - Women and World War I
An overview of the role of Canadian women at home during World War I. From "The Great War".
Unfolding Power - 1910-1919 - Women and World War I
Canadian women during WWI, and their fight for the vote. Primary resources. From "Unfolding Power".
Women in the Services
From the "Grolier Library of World War I".

Canadiana Scrapbook: Canadians at War 1914-1918
Call Number: 971.061
A scrapbook of primary resources.
Section: Women and the War Effort
Women at War 1914-1918
Call Number: 940.3 MAR
This book may be falling apart, but it has excellent and very detailed information about the experience of British women during World War I.

The Women of World War I
Excerpts from Chapters 2, 5, and 6 of Joshua S. Goldstein's Book "War and Gender"
Canada's Nursing Sisters
Part of the Veterans Affairs Canada Remembrance Series. Read the Introduction, the section on WWI, and the section listing the names of nurses who lost their lives in WWI.
The Call to Duty: Canada's Nursing Sisters - Caregiving on the Front
Caregiving on the Front: The Experience of Canadian Military Nurses during World War I. From Library and Archives Canada.

Front Lines: Nurses at the Front
A short video (8 mins) from the National Film Board of Canada.
And We Knew How to Dance: Women in World War I
A full documentary video (55 mins) from the National Film Board of Canada. Twelve Canadian women, aged 86 to 101, recall their entry into what had been a male world of munitions factories and farm labour.