Shadow-Shapes: The Journal of a Wounded Woman

Shadow-Shapes: The Journal of a Wounded Woman provides a rare first-hand account of World War I from a female perspective, detailing the author's own injuries from a landmine explosion and her reflections from a series of French military hospitals.

In this autobiographical memoir, Sergeant examines the gendered societal positions of the era, noting how she views her own participation in the war as less significant than a man's, despite her personal suffering. Her prose is at once painful and...