Gender and the First World War

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Introduction: Women’s and Gender History of the First World War — Topics, Concepts, Perspectives

   • Christa Hämmerle, Oswald Überegger, Birgitta Bader Zaar

   Pages 1-15

3. Women Behind the Lines: The Friuli Region as a Case Study of Total Mobilization, 1915–1917

   • Matteo Ermacora

   Pages 16-35

4. Imagining and Communicating Violence: The Correspondence of a Berlin Family, 1914–1918

   • Dorothee Wierling

   Pages 36-51

5. Love in the Trenches: German Soldiers’ Conceptions of Sexual Deviance and Hegemonic Masculinity in the First World War

   • Jason Crouthamel

   Pages 52-71

6. Visualizing ‘War Hysterics’: Strategies of Feminization and Re-Masculinization in Scientific Cinematography, 1916–1918

   • Julia Barbara Köhne

   Pages 72-88

7. ‘Mentally broken, physically a wreck…’: Violence in War Accounts of Nurses in Austro-Hungarian Service

   • Christa Hämmerle

   Pages 89-107

8. Remembering French and British First World War Heroines

   • Alison S. Fell

   Pages 108-126

9. The Baby in the Gas Mask: Motherhood, Wartime Technology, and the Gendered Division Between the Fronts During and After the First World War

   • Susan R. Grayzel

   Pages 127-143

10. The Female Mourner: Gender and the Moral Economy of Grief During the First World War

    • Claudia Siebrecht

    Pages 144-162

11. French Boys and Girls in the Great War: Gender and the History of Children’s Experiences, 1914–1918

    • Manon Pignot

    Pages 163-175

12. Towards a New Internationalism: Pacifist Journals Edited by Women, 1914–1919

    • Bruna Bianchi

    Pages 176-194

13. ‘A foolish dream of sisterhood’: Anti-Pacifist Debates in the German Women’s Movement, 1914–1919

    • Ingrid Sharp

    Pages 195-213

14. War Activities and Citizenship Rights in and outside the Occupied Zone: Lithuanian Women During the First World War

    • Virginija Jurėnienė

    Pages 214-230

15. Love for the Nation in Times of War: Strategies and Discourses of the National and Political Mobilization of Slovene Women in Carinthia from 1917 to 1920

    • Tina Bahovec

    Pages 231-250

16. Back Matter

    Pages 251-265

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The First World War cannot be sufficiently documented and understood without considering the analytical category of gender. This exciting volume examines key issues in this area, including the 'home front' and battlefront, violence, pacifism, citizenship and emphasizes the relevance of gender within the expanding field of First World War Studies.

• First World War
• history
• Home Front
• nation

“Gender and the First World War is highly recommended for those interested in Central and Eastern-European testimonies of war as the previously mentioned sources can serve as a basis either for socio-cultural or literary analysis. The volume may also be useful for those engaged in gender studies as the experience of the First World War is unquestionably the cradle of our modern view and interpretation of different gender roles and norms.” (Eszter Edit Balogh, Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies, Vol. 23 (1), 2017)

• University of Vienna, Austria

  Christa Hämmerle

• University of Bozen/Bolzano, Italy

  Oswald Überegger

• Department of History, University of Vienna, Austria

  Birgitta Bader Zaar

Tina Bahovec, University of Klagenfurt, Austria Bruna Bianchi, University Ca' Foscari Venice, Italy Jason Crouthamel, Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Michigan, USA Matteo Ermacora is an independent scholar Alison S. Fell, University of Leeds, UK Susan R. Grayzel, University of Mississippi, USA Virginija Jur?nien?, Vilnius University, Lithuania Julia Köhne, University of Vienna, Austria Manon Pignot University of Picardie, France Ingrid E. Sharp, University of Leeds, UK Claudia Siebrecht, University of Sussex, UK Dorothee Wierling, University of Hamburg, Germany

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