Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Gardening in the New Century
Part 1. The First World War
Chapter 1. Ladies of Leisure and Women of Action
Chapter 2. The Land Girls
Chapter 3. Sowing the Seeds of Victory
Part II. The Second World War
Chapter 4. The Aftermath of War: Gender and Agriculture in the Interwar Years
Chapter 5. “A Call to Farms”
Chapter 6. Freedom from Want: The Role of the Victory Garden in the Second World War
Part III. Cultivation and Cultural Transcendence
Chapter 7. The Women’s Land Army, Victory Gardens, and Cultural Transcendence
Epilogue: Garden as Metaphor
Notes
Bibliography
Index