Maggie Andrews is Professor of Cultural History at the University of Worcester, UK.

Introduction
1. Myths, Memories and Memorials of Evacuation
2. Femininity, Domesticity and Motherhood 1900-1939
3. Nationalising Hundreds and Thousands of Women: A Domestic Response to a National Problem
4. The Challenges of Enforced Intimacy: Looking after Evacuees
5. Mothers Encouraged to Wave Goodbye
6. Women's Organisations and Evacuation
7. Women Were Paid to Care: Teachers, Social Workers and Psychologists
8. Afterword: The Post-war Idealisation of the Family in the Wake Evacuation
Bibliography
Index