Acknowledgments
Page 8-11
Introduction: Transformation in a Time of War?
Page 12-35
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Part 1: Mobilizing Women
Page 36-109
-----1 “In Defense of the Empire” The Six Nations of the Grand River and the Great War
Page 40-61
-----2 The Unquiet Knitters of Newfoundland: From Mothers of the Regiment to Mothers of the Nation
Page 62-85
-----3 Freshettes, Farmerettes, and Feminine Fortitude at the University of Toronto during the First World War
Page 86-109
Part 2: Women’s Work?
Page 110-181
-----4 Gendering Patriotism: Canadian Volunteer Nurses as the Female“Soldiers” of the Great War
Page 114-136
-----5 “Such Sights One Will Never Forget”: Newfoundland Women and Overseas Nursing in the First World War
Page 137-158
-----6 Patriotic, Not Permanent: Attitudes about Women’s MakingBombs and Being Bankers
Page 159-181
Part 3: Family Matters
Page 182-251
-----7 An Honour and a Burden: Canadian Girls and the Great War
Page 184-205
-----8 Supporting Soldiers’ Wives and Families in the Great War: What Was Transformed?
Page 206-229
-----9 Marks of Grief: Black Attire, Medals, and Service Flags
Page 230-251
Part 4: Creative Responses
Page 252-325
-----10 Verses in the Darkness: A Newfoundland Poet Responds to the First World War
Page 256-280
-----11 “’Twas You, Mother, Made Me a Man”: The Motherhood Motif in the Poetry of the First World War
Page 281-303
-----12 “Mother, Lover, Nurse”: The Reassertion of ConventionalGender Norms in Representationsof Disability in Canadian Novelsof the First World War
Page 304-325
Selected Bibliography
Page 334-340
Contributors
Page 341-343
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