The Women's Movement in Wartime International Perspectives, 1914-19
by Fell, Alison S.; Sharp, IngridFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2007-05-15
Publisher(s): Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary
This is a comparative, interdisciplinary book that explores the responses of the women's movement to World War I in all of the major belligerent nations.
Author Biography
ALISON S. FELL is Lecturer in French at Lancaster University, UK. She is author of Liberty, Equality, Maternity (2003) and has published widely on Twentieth-century women's writing and culture. She is currently writing a book on First World War French nurse memoirs.
INGRID SHARP is Senior Lecturer in German at Leeds University, UK. Her research focuses on the history of the Women's Movement in Germany and its international connections. She has published several articles on gender relations in Germany during the First World War and the Weimar Republic, and is co-editor, with Jane Jordan, of Diseases of the Body Politic: Josephine Butler and the Prostitution Campaigns (2003).
INGRID SHARP is Senior Lecturer in German at Leeds University, UK. Her research focuses on the history of the Women's Movement in Germany and its international connections. She has published several articles on gender relations in Germany during the First World War and the Weimar Republic, and is co-editor, with Jane Jordan, of Diseases of the Body Politic: Josephine Butler and the Prostitution Campaigns (2003).
Table of Contents
| List of Figures | p. vii |
| Acknowledgements | p. viii |
| Notes on the Contributors | p. ix |
| Introduction: The Women's Movement and the First World War | p. 1 |
| 'Indian Sisters!...Send your husbands, brothers, sons': India, Women and the First World War | p. 18 |
| Martial Spirit and Mobilization Myths: Bourgeois Women and the 'Ideas of 1914' in Germany | p. 38 |
| 'French women do not wish to talk about peace': Julie Siegfried and the Response of the Conseil National des Femmes Francaises to the First World War | p. 53 |
| Blaming the Women: Women's 'Responsibility' for the First World War | p. 67 |
| The Creation of an Icon in Defence of Helene Brion: Pacifists and Feminists in the French Minority Media | p. 88 |
| In a Different Voice: Responses of Hungarian Feminism to the First World War | p. 105 |
| Feminism and Suffrage in Russia: Women, War and Revolution 1914-1917 | p. 124 |
| The Pankhursts and the Great War | p. 141 |
| 'The Woman Who Dared': Major Mabel St Clair Stobart | p. 158 |
| Esther Pohl Lovejoy, M.D., the First World War, and a Feminist Critique of Wartime Violence | p. 175 |
| Elisabeth Rotten and the 'Auskunfts- und Hilfsstelle fur Deutsche im Ausland und Auslander in Deutschland', 1914-1919 | p. 194 |
| Transforming Utopia: The 'League for the Protection of Mothers and Sexual Reform' in the First World War | p. 211 |
| The 'Women's International League for Peace and Freedom' and Reconciliation after the Great War | p. 227 |
| Sacrificial Rituals and Wounded Hearts: The Uses of Christian Symbolism in French and German Women's Responses to the First World War | p. 244 |
| Index | p. 260 |
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