Cutting a New Pattern

Uniformed Women in the Great War

Barton C. Hacker (Barton C. Hacker)

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Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press
12 May 2020

First World War; Gender studies: women

A remarkable exploration of the significance of women's uniforms during World War I.

Scholars in recent decades have begun to pay a great deal of attention to the mobilization of women in the Great War, but why so many women, civilian and military alike, wore uniforms is a question that has scarcely been asked, much less answered. The contributors to Cutting a New Pattern bring this question to the fore and show why it matters. Of the many ways the Great War divided the past from the future, few were more significant than the reordered place of women in society. Although women's new status clearly had prewar roots, it just as clearly derived from their wartime participation in uniform. Not only did tens of thousands of women for the first time become members of the uniformed forces, many tens of thousands more wore uniforms as members of an enormous variety of paramilitary or quasi-military services, civilian relief and welfare organizations, and as workers. Uniformed female workers and volunteers for wartime service in such large numbers was unprecedented. This ground-breaking project moves women's uniforms to center stage.

Edited by: Barton C. Hacker (Barton C. Hacker)
Imprint: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 260mm, Width: 184mm,
Weight: 1g
ISBN: 9781944466350
ISBN 10: 1944466355
Pages: 412
Publication Date: 12 May 2020
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Margaret Vining, who co-edited and contributed to this book, died before it appeared in print, but her inspiration and hard work made it possible. She served as the Curator of Armed Forces History at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History. Her publications include Companion to Women's Military History (Brill, 2012), American Military Technology (Johns Hopkins, 2007), and Science in Uniform, Uniforms in Science (Scarecrow, 2007). Barton C. Hacker is the Senior Curator of Armed Forces History at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History. He has edited and authored numerous books including Astride Two Worlds- Technology and the American Civil War MG1 (Smithsonian Scholarly Press, 2016), Companion to Women's Military History (Brill, 2012), American Military Technology (Johns Hopkins, 2007), Science in Uniform, Uniforms in Science (Scarecrow, 2007), and Materializing the Military (Science Museum, 2005).