Borderlines (eBook, PDF)

Genders and Identities in War and Peace 1870-1930
Redaktion: Melman, Billie

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Produktbeschreibung

Borderlines weaves together the study of gender with that of the evolution of nationalism and colonialism. Its broad, comparative perspective will rechart the war experiences and identities of women and men during this period of transformation from peace to war, and again to peace.

Drawing on a wide range of materials, from government policy and propaganda to subversive trench journalism and performance, from fiction, drama and film to the record of activists in various movements and in various countries, Borderlines weaves together the study of gender with that of the evolution of nationalism and colonialism. Its broad, comparative perspective will rechart the war experiences and identities of women and men during this period of transformation from peace to war, and again to peace.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136043826
• Artikelnr.: 45135781

Autorenporträt

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