This work weaves together the study of gender during World War I with that of the evolution of nationalism and colonialism. Locating the war in the longer era, 1870-1939, the collection examines the shifts of the borders of femininities and masculinities in their relations to women's and men's lived experiences of global modern war, revolution and social break-up. By including work on Great Britain, France, Germany and the United States, as well as studies on Russia, Turkey, Greece, Egypt, Palestine and West Africa, the author challenges some current interpretations of the gendered experience…mehr
This work weaves together the study of gender during World War I with that of the evolution of nationalism and colonialism. Locating the war in the longer era, 1870-1939, the collection examines the shifts of the borders of femininities and masculinities in their relations to women's and men's lived experiences of global modern war, revolution and social break-up. By including work on Great Britain, France, Germany and the United States, as well as studies on Russia, Turkey, Greece, Egypt, Palestine and West Africa, the author challenges some current interpretations of the gendered experience of war, especially that of women, and its relation to national identity.First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Billie Melman is Associate Professor of History at Tel-Aviv University and the author of Women's Orient's and Women and the Popular Imagination in the Twenties.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction Part I Gendering the Nation: Definitions and Boundaries: The British Imperial State and the Construction of National Identities; From Empire to Nation: Images of Women and War in Ottoman Political Cartoons, 1908-1923; Men and Soldiers: British Conscripts, Concepts of Masculinity, and the Great War; Family, Masculinity, and Heroism in Russian War Posters of the First World War; Re-Generation: Nation and the Construction of Gender in Peace and War-Palestine Jews, 1900-1918; Taking Risks for Pictures: The Heroics of Cinematic Realism in World War I; Part II Borderlands: Identities and Sexualities; Fin-de-Sieck Theatrics: Male Impersonation and Lesbian Desire; Lesbians before Lesbianism: Sexual Identity in Early Twentieth-Century British Fiction Spectacles and Sexualities: The Mise-en-Scene of the Tirailleur Senegalais on the Western Front, 1914-1920; Objects to Possess and Discard: The Representation of Jews and Women by British Women Novelists of the 1920s; Part III Dissent and Acquiescence: War, Feminism, and Female Action; Challenging Traditions: Denominational Feminism in Britain, 1910-1920; Religion, Emancipation, and Politics in the Confessional Women's Movement in Germany, 1900-1933; Ideological Crossroads: Feminism, Pacifism, and Socialism; The Politics of Female Notables in Postwar Egypt; Part IV Moving Boundaries: Work, Gender, and Mobilization; Public Functions, Private Premises: Female Professional Identity and the Domestic-Service Paradigm in Britain, c. 1850-1930; Emily Goes to War: Explaining the Recruitment to the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps in World War I; Work, Gender, and Identity in Peace and War: France 1890-1930; Class, Ethnicity, and Gender in Post-Ottoman Thessaloniki: The Great Tobacco Strike of 1914
Introduction Part I Gendering the Nation: Definitions and Boundaries: The British Imperial State and the Construction of National Identities; From Empire to Nation: Images of Women and War in Ottoman Political Cartoons, 1908-1923; Men and Soldiers: British Conscripts, Concepts of Masculinity, and the Great War; Family, Masculinity, and Heroism in Russian War Posters of the First World War; Re-Generation: Nation and the Construction of Gender in Peace and War-Palestine Jews, 1900-1918; Taking Risks for Pictures: The Heroics of Cinematic Realism in World War I; Part II Borderlands: Identities and Sexualities; Fin-de-Sieck Theatrics: Male Impersonation and Lesbian Desire; Lesbians before Lesbianism: Sexual Identity in Early Twentieth-Century British Fiction Spectacles and Sexualities: The Mise-en-Scene of the Tirailleur Senegalais on the Western Front, 1914-1920; Objects to Possess and Discard: The Representation of Jews and Women by British Women Novelists of the 1920s; Part III Dissent and Acquiescence: War, Feminism, and Female Action; Challenging Traditions: Denominational Feminism in Britain, 1910-1920; Religion, Emancipation, and Politics in the Confessional Women's Movement in Germany, 1900-1933; Ideological Crossroads: Feminism, Pacifism, and Socialism; The Politics of Female Notables in Postwar Egypt; Part IV Moving Boundaries: Work, Gender, and Mobilization; Public Functions, Private Premises: Female Professional Identity and the Domestic-Service Paradigm in Britain, c. 1850-1930; Emily Goes to War: Explaining the Recruitment to the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps in World War I; Work, Gender, and Identity in Peace and War: France 1890-1930; Class, Ethnicity, and Gender in Post-Ottoman Thessaloniki: The Great Tobacco Strike of 1914
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