ABSTRACT
The Afterword examines the conclusions drawn by historians and other scholars about the impact of the World War I on women’s lives, especially in France, and places the case studies explored by the chapter authors within this broader context. It argues that scholars’ analyses have evolved over the last 30 years, with more recent approaches offering a more nuanced model of social change that allows for a greater variation in women’s experience. This more nuanced approach is necessary to account for the diversity of creative women’s experiences of, and cultural responses to, the war.
