Last time I was at the library I read a magazine while waiting for the car and found an article on women's experiences in WWI. I just dug out the photocopy. It says the English review, February 2003, Fighting for recognition, by Jill Swale.
It's an interesting piece about a variety of experiences, shooting at people, working in factories, and nursing. Lots of interesting.
One bit I noticed because it made me think of Gwen on Torchwood.
a major problem between the sexes documented in much war literature. Men resented women's innocence of the horrors of war, yet paradoxically did not want to reveal their experiences. Either they unconsciously repressed them or they chose to treat their home when on leave as a haven untainted by references to battle.
So the people that had been fighting resented the people that hadn't been fighting, but at the same time wanted to protect them from even thinking about it.
Torchwood takes that to extremes, rather.
It's easy to see on Torchwood, Gwen says Rhys doesn't understand, and she isn't supposed to tell him so he can't understand, so their relationship goes wonky. But this mention that it's common in war, that's interesting to me.
Jack's been through a lot of wars, and now he protects people from even knowing about them. Hmmm.
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