Gender and the First World War [electronic resource] /
Hämmerle, Christa.editor.
Überegger, Oswald.editor.
Zaar, Birgitta Bader.editor.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations and Maps; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; 1 Introduction: Women's and Gender History of the First World War - Topics, Concepts, Perspectives; 2 Women Behind the Lines: The Friuli Region as a Case Study of Total Mobilization, 1915-1917; 3 Imagining and Communicating Violence: The Correspondence of a Berlin Family, 1914-1918; 4 Love in the Trenches: German Soldiers' Conceptions of Sexual Deviance and Hegemonic Masculinity in the First World War
5 Visualizing 'War Hysterics': Strategies of Feminization and Re-Masculinization in Scientific Cinematography, 1916-19186 'Mentally broken, physically a wreck...': Violence in War Accounts of Nurses in Austro-Hungarian Service; 7 Remembering French and British First World War Heroines; 8 The Baby in the Gas Mask: Motherhood, Wartime Technology, and the Gendered Division Between the Fronts During and After the First World War; 9 The Female Mourner: Gender and the Moral Economy of Grief During the First World War
10 French Boys and Girls in the Great War: Gender and the History of Children's Experiences, 1914-191811 Towards a New Internationalism: Pacifist Journals Edited by Women, 1914-1919; 12 'A foolish dream of sisterhood': Anti-Pacifist Debates in the German Women's Movement, 1914-1919; 13 War Activities and Citizenship Rights in and outside the Occupied Zone: Lithuanian Women During the First World War; 14 Love for the Nation in Times of War: Strategies and Discourses of the National and Political Mobilization of Slovene Women in Carinthia from 1917 to 1920; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
World history.
Civilization-History.
History, Modern.
Social history.
Military history.
World War, 1939-1945.
World History, Global and Transnational History.
Cultural History.
Modern History.
Social History.
History of Military.
History of World War II and the Holocaust.