基本説明
A comparative, interdisciplinary book which explores the responses of the women's movement to World War I in all of the major belligerent nations.
Full Description
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.
Contents
Introduction: The Women's Movement and the First World War; A.S.Fell & I.Sharp 'Indian Sisters!...Send your Husbands, Brothers, Sons': India, Women and the First World War; S.Das Martial Spirit and Mobilisation Myths: Women and the 'Ideas of 1914' in Germany; C.Siebrecht 'The Women of France do not wish to Speak about Peace': Julie Siegfried and the Response of the 'Conseil National des Femmes Fransçaises' to the First World War; A.S.Fell Blaming the Women: Women's Responsibility for the First World War; I.Sharp The Creation of an Icon in Defence of Hélène Brion: Pacifists and Feminists in the French Minority Media; J.Shearer 'In a Different Voice': Responses of Hungarian Feminism to the First World War; J.Acsády Feminism and Suffrage in Russia: Women, War and Revolution 1914-17; O.Shnyrova The Pankhursts and the Great War; J.Purvis 'The Woman who Dared': Major Mabel St Clair Stobart; A.K.Smith Esther Pohl Lovejoy, M.D., the First World War, and a Feminist Critique of Wartime Violence; K.Jensen Elizabeth Rotten and the 'Auskunftsund Hilfsstelle für Deutschland im Ausland und Ausländer in Deutschland', 1914-18; M.Stibbe Preserving Utopia: the 'German League for the Protection of Mothers and Sexual Reform' in the First World War; P.Davies 'The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom' and Reconciliation after the Great War; E.Kuhlman Sacrificial Rituals and Wounded Hearts: the Uses of Christian Symbolism in French and German Women's Responses to the First World War; C.O'Brien
