Socialist women and the Great War 1914 21 : protest revolution and commemoration Socialist Women and the Great War: Protest Revolution and Commemoration is the first transnational study of left wing women and socialist revolution during the First World War and its aftermath. Through a discussion of the key themes related to women and revolution such as anti militarism and violence democracy and citizenship and experience and life writing this book sheds new and necessary light on the everyday lives of socialist women in the early 20th century. The participants of the 1918 1919 revolutions in Europe and the accompanying outbreaks of social unrest elsewhere in the world have typically been portrayed as war weary soldiers and suited committee delegates in other words as men. Exceptions like Rosa Luxemburg do exist but ordinary women are often cast as passive recipients of the vote. But this is not the case; rather women were pivotal actors in the making imagining and remembering of the social and political upheavals of this time. From wartime strikes to revolutionary violence to issues of suffrage this book reveals how women constructed their own revolutionary selves in order to bring about lasting social change. These fascinating multi authored essays by leading scholars provide a fresh comparative approach to womens socialist activism as well as examining how female involvement in these events has been privately and publicly commemorated over the past hundred years. This is a vitally important resource for all postgraduates and advanced undergraduates interested in gender studies international relations and the history and legacy of World War I. 1. Protest Strikes and Anti Militarism 1914 1918 Philippa Read University of Leeds UK; Katharina Hermann University of Bern Switzerland; Anna Hammerin University of Hertfordshire UK; Matthew Stibbe Sheffield Hallam University 2. Women and Revolutionary Violence 1916 1921 (Matthew Stibbe Sheffield Hallam University; Veronika Helfert University of Vienna Austria; Mary McAuliffe University College Dublin Ireland; Judith Szapor McGill University Canada 3. Suffrage Democracy and Citizenship Kathleen Canning Rice University USA; Hanem El Farahaty University of Leeds UK; Philippa Read University of Leeds UK ;Judith Szapor McGill University Canada 4. Life trajectories after the Revolution Corinne Painter University of Leeds UK; Veronika Helfert University of Vienna Austria; Ingrid Sharp University of Leeds UK; Matthew Stibbe Sheffield Hallam University 5. Centenary Commemorations of the Revolution Ingrid Sharp University of Leeds UK; Jude Wright Bradford Peace Museum UK; Corinne Painter University of Leeds UK; Dorothee Linnemann Historisches Museum Germany Index .