Photography, World War I, and Gender History combine in Dr. Hudgins’ new book, out this month as an open access pdf here: http://research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk/handle/10023/5016.

The book, entitled, Hold Still, Madame: Wartime Gender and the Photography of Women in France during the Great War, uses army photographs, magazine illustrations, and postcards to discuss how women in France were represented during the First World War.  The volume is fully illustrated and free to all.

Next up for Dr. Hudgins will be a new book proposal on the broader topic of early photography and gender.

Here a commercial photographer captured women and children on the steps of a workshop for unemployed women during World War I.  The image (1917) would be made available for use by the press.  BNF/Gallica.