How the role of women in society is portrayed in Pat Barker's 'REGENERATION'

Regeneration focuses on troubled soldiers' mental states during WW1. The Craiglockhart setting allows Barker to explore the psychological effects of warfare on men who went to fight and also their feelings about the war and the military's involvement in it. While the focus of the novel is firmly on the male perspective (indeed Barker claimed she had partly chosen this novel to prove she could 'do men as well as women'), there is a small …

…avoid her landlady knowing what they are doing. The financial freedom afforded by the war will end when the war ends just as Lizzie will be reunited with her abusive husband. Billy's observation that women 'seemed to have changed so much during the war, to have expanded in all kinds of ways' may have been accurate to some extent but does not acknowledge the restrictions still placed on women both during and after the war.