Article ID: CBB437823292

‘We Cows are in a Very Serious Predicament’: Constructions of Land Girls and Cattle in Britain in the Second World War (2022)

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This article addresses understandings of a novel wartime labour force, the Women's Land Army, and of the cattle that a large proportion of its members worked with, in Britain during and after the Second World War. It draws on official records, publicity material, print media, memoirs and oral histories for an analysis of the gendered dynamics of the wartime management of the dairy herd, focusing on cultural constructions and their contradictions. We argue that Land Girls were widely depicted as urban interlopers even though many came from rural backgrounds, while cattle were sometimes seen as representatives of rural resistance and sometimes as vehicles for personal transformation.

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Authors & Contributors
Jones, Edgar
Edward P.F. Rose
Tyler Morton
Marion Girard Dorsey
Kirchhelle, Claas
Hoelle, Jeffrey
Concepts
World War II
Science and war; science and the military
Codes and cryptography
Mathematics
Enigma cipher system
Psychiatry
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, early
21st century
19th century
18th century
Places
Great Britain
United States
Germany
Canada
Brazil
Institutions
Great Britain. Royal Air Force
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