Article ID: CBB348581173

Kitchen Window Feminism: Sarah Macnaughtan, Wartime Care and the Authority of Experience in the South African and First World Wars (2021)

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Sarah Macnaughtan, a wealthy novelist, used volunteer care work to claim the legitimacy of her wartime experience in the South African and First World Wars and to assert women's rights in the early twentieth-century British empire. Macnaughtan framed her caregiving experiences in both inherently domestic terms – ‘from a kitchen window’ – and as a justification for women's suffrage and participation in public life. Her example loosens a persistent binary between trained nurses and untrained wartime volunteers and highlights the importance of precedents set in the British empire to the feminist politics and caring practices of the First World War.

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Authors & Contributors
Horwitz, Simonne
Bala, Poonam
Cliff, Andrew D.
Digby, Anne
Geddes, Jennian F.
Gilfoyle, Daniel
Journals
Social History of Medicine
Canadian Bulletin of Medical History/Bulletin Canadienne d'Histoire de la Medecine
Gender and History
Indian Journal of History of Science
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
Medical History
Publishers
Fordham University Press
Indiana University Press
Lexington Books
Univ. Chicago Press
University of Nevada
Occasional Publications of the Natal Society Foundation
Concepts
Medicine
Nurses and nursing
Great Britain, colonies
Feminism
Women in medicine
Colonialism
People
Fischer-Dückelmann, Anna
Nightingale, Florence
Ray, Prafulla Chandra
King, Truby
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
20th century
20th century, late
16th century
17th century
Places
South Africa
India
Brazil
Australia
Canada
London (England)
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