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The Women's Movement in Wartime

International Perspectives, 1914-19

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  • © 2007

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Editors:
  1. Alison S. Fell

    1. Lancaster University, UK

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  2. Ingrid Sharp

    1. University of Leeds, UK

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction: The Women’s Movement and the First World War

    • Alison S. Fell, Ingrid Sharp
    Pages 1-17

  3. ‘Indian Sisters! … Send your husbands, brothers, sons’: India, Women and the First World War

    • Santanu Das
    Pages 18-37

  4. Martial Spirit and Mobilization Myths: Bourgeois Women and the ‘Ideas of 1914’ in Germany

    • Claudia Siebrecht
    Pages 38-52

  5. ‘French women do not wish to talk about peace’: Julie Siegfried and the Response of the Conseil National des Femmes Françaises to the First World War

    • Alison S. Fell
    Pages 53-66

  6. Blaming the Women: Women’s ‘Responsibility’ for the First World War

    • Ingrid Sharp
    Pages 67-87

  7. The Creation of an Icon in Defence of Hélène Brion: Pacifists and Feminists in the French Minority Media

    • Joanna Shearer
    Pages 88-104

  8. In a Different Voice: Responses of Hungarian Feminism to the First World War

    • Judit Acsády
    Pages 105-123

  9. Feminism and Suffrage in Russia: Women, War and Revolution 1914–1917

    • Olga Shnyrova
    Pages 124-140

  10. The Pankhursts and the Great War

    • June Purvis
    Pages 141-157

  11. ‘The Woman Who Dared’: Major Mabel St Clair Stobart

    • Angela K. Smith
    Pages 158-174

  12. Esther Pohl Lovejoy, M.D., the First World War, and a Feminist Critique of Wartime Violence

    • Kimberly Jensen
    Pages 175-193

  13. Elisabeth Rotten and the ‘Auskunfts- und Hilfsstelle für Deutsche im Ausland und Ausländer in Deutschland’, 1914–1919

    • Matthew Stibbe
    Pages 194-210

  14. Transforming Utopia: The ‘League for the Protection of Mothers and Sexual Reform’ in the First World War

    • Peter Davies
    Pages 211-226

  15. The ‘Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom’ and Reconciliation after the Great War

    • Erika Kuhlman
    Pages 227-243

  16. Sacrificial Rituals and Wounded Hearts: The Uses of Christian Symbolism in French and German Women’s Responses to the First World War

    • Catherine O’Brien
    Pages 244-259

  17. Back Matter

    Pages 260-272
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This comparative, interdisciplinary book explores the responses of the women's movement to World War I in all of the major belligerent nations. The contributors cover key topics including women's relationship with the state, women's war service, mothers in wartime, suffrage, peace and the aftermath of war, and women's guilt and responsibility.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Lancaster University, UK

    Alison S. Fell

  • University of Leeds, UK

    Ingrid Sharp

About the editors

JUDIT ACSÁDY Sociology Research Institute, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary SANTANU DAS Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Queen Mary, University of London, UK PETER DAVIES Senior Lecturer in German, the University of Edinburgh, UK ALISON S. FELL Lecturer in French Studies, Lancaster University, UK KIMBERLY JENSEN Professor of History and Gender Studies, Western Oregon University, USA ERIKA KUHLMAN Assistant Professor of History, Idaho State University, USA CATHERINE O'BRIEN Lecturer in French and Film Studies, Kingston University, UK JUNE PURVIS Professor of Women's and Gender History, the University of Portsmouth, UK INGRID SHARP Senior Lecturer in German, Leeds University, UK JOANNA SHEARER PhD candidate, Oxford Brookes University, UK OLGA SHNYROVA Director of Gender Studies and Associate Professor, the Ivanovo State University, Russia CLAUDIA SIEBRECHT PhD candidate, Trinity College Dublin, ROI ANGELA K. SMITH Senior Lecturer in English and Creative Writing, the University of Plymouth, UK MATTHEW STIBBE Senior Lecturer in History, Sheffield Hallam University, UK

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