A Sisterhood of Suffering and Service: Women and Girls of Canada and Newfoundland during the First World War

Introduction: Transformation in a Time of War? / Sarah Glassford and Amy Shaw

Part 1: Mobilizing Women

1 “In Defense of the Empire”: The Six Nations of the Grand River and the Great War / Alison Norman

2 The Unquiet Knitters of Newfoundland: From Mothers of the Regiment to Mothers of the Nation / Margot I. Duley

3 Freshettes, Farmerettes, and Feminine Fortitude at the University of Toronto during the First World War / Terry Wilde

Part 2: Women’s Work

4 Gendering Patriotism: Canadian Volunteer Nurses as the Female “Soldiers” of the Great War / Linda J. Quiney

5 “Such Sights One Will Never Forget”: Newfoundland Women and Overseas Nursing in the First World War / Terry Bishop Stirling

6 Patriotic, Not Permanent: Attitudes about Women’s Making Bombs and Being Bankers / Kori Street

Part 3: Family Matters

7 An Honour and a Burden: Canadian Girls and the Great War / Kristine Alexander

8 Supporting Soldiers’ Wives and Families in the Great War: What Was Transformed? / Desmond Morton

9 Marks of Grief: Black Attire, Medals, and Service Flags / Suzanne Evans

Part 4: Creative Responses

10 Verses in the Darkness: A Newfoundland Poet Responds to the First World War / Vicki S. Hallett

11 “’Twas You, Mother, Made Me a Man”: The Motherhood Motif in the Poetry of the First World War / Lynn Kennedy

12 “Mother, Lover, Nurse”: The Reassertion of Conventional Gender Norms in Fictional Representations of Disability in Canadian Novels of the First World War / Amy Tector

Conclusion: “Sisterhood of Suffering and Service” / Sarah Glassford and Amy Shaw

Selected Bibliography; Index