This lively collection of essays showcases recent research into the impact of the conflict on British women during the First World War and since. This book was originally published as a special issue of Women's History Review.

1. Introduction: Representing, Remembering and Rewriting Women's Histories of the First World War 2. The Carer, the Combatant and the Clandestine: images of women in the First World War in War Illustrated magazine 3. Suffragettes and the Scottish Press during the First World War 4. Antimilitarism, Citizenship and Motherhood: the formation and early years of the Women's International League (WIL), 1915-1919 5. 'Giddy Girls', 'Scandalous Statements' and a 'Burst Bubble': the war babies panic of 1914-1915 6. 'A Matter of Individual Opinion and Feeling': The changing culture of mourning dress in the First World War 7. Gendered musical responses to First World War experiences 8. 'My Husband is Interested in War Generally': gender, family history and the emotional legacies of total war 9. What the Women Did: remembering or reducing women of the First World War on the contemporary British stage