The Women's Movement in Wartime

International Perspectives, 1914-19

By: Alison S. Dr Fell (Editor), Ingrid Sharp (Editor)

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Hardcover | 1 June 2007 | Edition Number 1

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A comparative, interdisciplinary book which explores the responses of the women's movement to World War I in all of the major belligerent nations. Working in the fields of gender studies and women's history, the contributors cover key topics including women's relationship with the state and with the nation, the status of women's war service, women's role as mothers in wartime, women's suffrage, peace and the aftermath of war, and women's guilt and responsibility.

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Non-Fiction Society & Culture Social Groups Gender Studies Gender Studies: Women and Girls History General & World History Specific Events & Topics in History Social & Cultural History Regional & National History European History British & Irish History

Military History First World War History Social Issues & Processes Feminism & Feminist Theory Medicine Other Branches of Medicine Clinical Psychology

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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