By Ann Howard,Margaret Whitlam

In You’ll Be Sorry! Ann Howard honours grandmothers and moms in an exceptional account of women’s participation within the providers in the course of global conflict II, and their resulting conflict for equivalent chance that set the basis for the Women’s Liberation stream of the 70s.
You’ll Be Sorry! is an soaking up account of the reviews of girls serving within the Australian Women’s military provider, and different providers.
Ann Howard captures the resistance and prejudice 66,000 girls skilled as they left domestic to affix the providers in WWll.
Their tales diversity throughout Australia and are acknowledged with unflagging honesty. Howard provides a brilliant account of women’s becoming self assurance as they got accountable positions, basically to discover there has been no position for them open air the house after peace was once declared. They lower back to discover the lads had taken the roles. there has been a social expectation that they need to go back to their houses, have infants and keep on as earlier than and take care of the customarily traumatised returning males. a lot of their tales are horrendous.
This publication is as a result earlier fabric released within the Nineteen Nineties, and nonetheless in nice call for. some of the very good girls Howard interviewed are not any longer with us, so those money owed are traditionally precious.
"There is a few outstanding archival fabric… definitely there'll be demands a moment, augmented edition." - Margaret Whitlam (Comment in 1990)
"...a the best option account of women’s participation in Australian background: to the writer and the themes pass our compliment and appreciation." - Dale Spender (Comment in 1994)

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