Gender And The First World War

Author : Christa Hämmerle
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137302208
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gender and the First World War written by Christa Hämmerle and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-01-02 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The First World War cannot be sufficiently documented and understood without considering the analytical category of gender. This exciting volume examines key issues in this area, including the 'home front' and battlefront, violence, pacifism, citizenship and emphasizes the relevance of gender within the expanding field of First World War Studies.

Author : Margaret R. Higonnet
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300044294
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Behind the Lines written by Margaret R. Higonnet and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays analyze the two world wars in respect to gender politics and reassesses the differences between men and women in relation to war

Author : Susan R. Grayzel
Publisher : Macmillan Higher Education
ISBN 13 : 1319191142
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The First World War written by Susan R. Grayzel and published by Macmillan Higher Education. This book was released on 2020-10-02 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brief but thorough collection, Susan Grayzel’s new revision of The First World War document reader allows students to experience this historical turning point through various sources from the period and the scholarship tied to them.

Author : Susan R. Grayzel
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317875788
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women and the First World War written by Susan R. Grayzel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-04 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The First World War was the first modern, total war, one requiring the mobilisation of both civilians and combatants. Particularly in Europe, the main theatre of the conflict, this war demanded the active participation of both men and women. Women and the First World War provides an introduction to the experiences and contributions of women during this important turning point in history. In addition to exploring women’s relationship to the war in each of the main protagonist states, the book also looks at the wide-ranging effects of the war on women in Africa Asia, Australia, New Zealand, and North America. Topical in its approach, the book highlights: the heated public debates about women’s social, cultural and political roles that the war inspired their varied experiences of war women’s representation in propaganda their roles in peace movements and revolutionary activity that grew out of the war the consequences of the war for women in its immediate aftermath Containing a document section providing a wide range of sources from first-hand accounts, a Chronology and Glossary, Women and the First World War is an ideal text for students studying the First World War or the role of women in the twentieth century.

Author : G. Shenk
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9781403961778
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book “Work or Fight!” written by G. Shenk and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-03-11 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During World War I the U.S. demanded that all able-bodied men work or fight. White men who were husbands and fathers, owned property or worked at approved jobs had the benefits of citizenship without fighting. Others were often barred from achieving these benefits. This book tells the stories of those affected by the Selective Service System.

Author : Susan R. Grayzel
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469620812
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women's Identities at War written by Susan R. Grayzel and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014-03-19 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are few moments in history when the division between the sexes seems as "natural" as during wartime: men go off to the "war front," while women stay behind on the "home front." But the very notion of the home front was an invention of the First World War, when, for the first time, "home" and "domestic" became adjectives that modified the military term "front." Such an innovation acknowledged the significant and presumably new contributions of civilians, especially women, to the war effort. Yet, as Susan Grayzel argues, throughout the war, traditional notions of masculinity and femininity survived, primarily through the maintenance of--and indeed reemphasis on--soldiering and mothering as the core of gender and national identities. Drawing on sources that range from popular fiction and war memorials to newspapers and legislative debates, Grayzel analyzes the effects of World War I on ideas about civic participation, national service, morality, sexuality, and identity in wartime Britain and France. Despite the appearance of enormous challenges to gender roles due to the upheavals of war, the forces of stability prevailed, she says, demonstrating the Western European gender system's remarkable resilience.

Author : Susan R. Grayzel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190271078
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gender and the Great War written by Susan R. Grayzel and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gender and the Great War provides a global, thematic approach to a century of scholarship on the war, masculinity and femininity, and it constitutes the most up-to-date survey of the topic by well-known scholars in the field.

Author : Ute Daniel
Publisher : Continnuum-3PL
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The War from Within written by Ute Daniel and published by Continnuum-3PL. This book was released on 1997-11 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important translation looks at World War I from the perspective of German working-class women. The author demonstrates the intimate connection between 'general' social history and women's history while analyzing the dynamics between these different levels of interpretation. She asks: - How did women view the war and whom did they hold responsible for it? - How did military leaders and politicians perceive women at work, in the home, and on the streets? This book explores the ways in which the people themselves interpreted their world and their lives -- a perspective often neglected by historians but one becoming increasingly relevant in Germany today. Essential reading for all those interested in War Studies, German Studies, History and Women's Studies and an excellent text for course use.

Author : Virginia Nicholson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780199703043
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Singled Out written by Virginia Nicholson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-29 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almost three-quarters of a million British soldiers lost their lives during the First World War, and many more were incapacitated by their wounds, leaving behind a generation of women who, raised to see marriage as "the crown and joy of woman's life," suddenly discovered that they were left without an escort to life's great feast. Drawing upon a wealth of moving memoirs, Singled Out tells the inspiring stories of these women: the student weeping for a lost world as the Armistice bells pealed, the socialite who dedicated her life to resurrecting the ancient past after her soldier love was killed, the Bradford mill girl whose campaign to better the lot of the "War spinsters" was to make her a public figure--and many others who, deprived of their traditional roles, reinvented themselves into something better. Tracing their fates, Nicholson shows that these women did indeed harbor secret sadness, and many of them yearned for the comforts forever denied them--physical intimacy, the closeness of a loving relationship, and children. Some just endured, but others challenged the conventions, fought the system, and found fulfillment outside of marriage. From the mill-girl turned activist to the debutante turned archeologist, from the first woman stockbroker to the "business girls" and the Miss Jean Brodies, this book memorializes a generation of young women who were forced, by four of the bloodiest years in human history, to stop depending on men for their income, their identity, and their future happiness. Indeed, Singled Out pays homage to this remarkable generation of women who, changed by war, in turn would change society.

Author : Kimberly Jensen
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252074963
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mobilizing Minerva written by Kimberly Jensen and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American women did more than pursue roles as soldiers, doctors, and nurses during World War I. Mobilizing Minerva: American Women in the First World War reveals women's motivations for fighting for full citizenship rights both on and off the battlefield. The war provided chances for women to participate in the military, but also in other male-dominated career paths. Intense discussions of rape, methods of protecting women, and proper gender roles abound as Kimberly Jensen draws from rich case studies to show how female thinkers and activists wove wartime choices into long-standing debates about woman suffrage and economic parity. The war created new urgency in these debates, and Jensen forcefully presents the case of women participants and activists: women's involvement in the obligation of citizens to defend the state validated their right of full female citizenship.