The Women's Movement in Wartime
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The Women's Movement in Wartime

International Perspectives, 1914-19

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eBook - PDF

The Women's Movement in Wartime

International Perspectives, 1914-19

About this book

This comparative, interdisciplinary book explores the responses of the women's movement to World War I in all of the major belligerent nations. The contributors cover key topics including women's relationship with the state, women's war service, mothers in wartime, suffrage, peace and the aftermath of war, and women's guilt and responsibility.

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Yes, you can access The Women's Movement in Wartime by A. Fell, I. Sharp, A. Fell,I. Sharp in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in History & British History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2007
Print ISBN
9781349285761, 9780230019669
eBook ISBN
9780230210790
Topic
History
Subtopic
British History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. List of Figures
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. Notes on the Contributors
  6. 1 Introduction: The Women’s Movement and the First World War
  7. 2 ‘Indian Sisters! … Send your husbands, brothers, sons’: India, Women and the First World War
  8. 3 Martial Spirit and Mobilization Myths: Bourgeois Women and the ‘Ideas of 1914’ in Germany
  9. 4 ‘French women do not wish to talk about peace’: Julie Siegfried and the Response of the Conseil National des Femmes Fran?aises to the First World War
  10. 5 Blaming the Women: Women’s ‘Responsibility’ for the First World War
  11. 6 The Creation of an Icon in Defence of HÊlène Brion: Pacifists and Feminists in the French Minority Media
  12. 7 In a Different Voice: Responses of Hungarian Feminism to the First World War
  13. 8 Feminism and Suffrage in Russia: Women, War and Revolution 1914–1917
  14. 9 The Pankhursts and the Great War
  15. 10 ‘The Woman Who Dared’: Major Mabel St Clair Stobart
  16. 11 Esther Pohl Lovejoy, M.D., the First World War, and a Feminist Critique of Wartime Violence
  17. 12 Elisabeth Rotten and the ‘Auskunfts- und Hilfsstelle für Deutsche im Ausland und Ausl?nder in Deutschland’, 1914–1919
  18. 13 Transforming Utopia: The ‘League for the Protection of Mothers and Sexual Reform’ in the First World War
  19. 14 The ‘Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom’ and Reconciliation after the Great War
  20. 15 Sacrificial Rituals and Wounded Hearts: The Uses of Christian Symbolism in French and German Women’s Responses to the First World War
  21. Index