Download or read book Women and Evacuation in the Second World War written by Maggie Andrews and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-08-08 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction ; 1. Myths, Memories and Memorials of Evacuation ; 2. Femininity, Domesticity and Motherhood 1900-1939 ; 3. Nationalising Hundreds and Thousands of Women: A Domestic Response to a National Problem ; 4. The Challenges of Enforced Intimacy: Looking after Evacuees ; 5. Mothers Encouraged to Wave Goodbye ; 6. Women's Organisations and Evacuation ; 7. Women Were Paid to Care: Teachers, Social Workers and Psychologists ; 8. Afterword: The Post-war Idealisation of the Family in the Wake Evacuation.