Women and the First World War

Intro -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Plates -- Documents -- Acknowledgements -- Chronology -- Who's who -- Part 1: Frameworks -- 1. Introduction -- Part 2: Experiences of war -- 2. The war begins: Mobilisation, propaganda and state support of families -- Feminine images in visual propaganda -- The 'rape of Belgium', the Bryce Report and atrocity propaganda -- Beyond images: The recruiting of men -- Separation allowances and war pensions -- 3. Women's war work: Remunerative, voluntary and familial -- Mobilising and facing the war -- Writing and recording the war -- Waged war work in factories -- Social welfare and police work -- The medical professions -- On the land -- Female spies and the question of wartime treason -- Women's unpaid and charitable work -- 'The kitchen is the key to victory': Work in the home -- Attitudes to war and work -- 4. Women in the line of fire -- Life under occupation in Europe -- In the army: Women's military services -- The experience of battle at home -- 5. Morale, morality and sexuality -- Loosening the double standard?: Morale and morality at home -- 'War babies': Out-of-wedlock births and sexuality -- Women as 'suspect' -- Commercial sex, coerced sex and the control of disease -- The war and gender disruption -- 6. Anti-war protest, dissent and revolution -- Women's anti-militarism and war resistance, c. 1914-16 -- The prosecution of women's anti-war activity -- Protests, strikes and war-weariness, 1917 -- Protests and radicalism beyond Europe -- Women and revolution: Ireland, Russia and Germany -- Part 3: Legacies of war -- 7. Assessing some of the consequences of the war for women -- Wartime and postwar changes in women's political rights -- The impact on women's employment -- Social welfare policy and cultural change -- Mourning and commemoration..

Medienart:	E-Book

Erscheinungsjahr:	2024 ©2024
Erschienen:	Milton: Taylor & Francis Group ; 2024 ©2024
Ausgabe:	2nd ed.

Reihe:	Seminar Studies

Sprache:	Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:	Grayzel, Susan R. [VerfasserIn]

Links:	ebookcentral.proquest.com [lizenzpflichtig]

ISBN:	978-1-003-82476-3

Themen:	Sex role-History-20th century Women-Social conditions-20th century World War, 1914-1918-Participation, Female World War, 1914-1918-Social aspects World War, 1914-1918-Women

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PPN (Katalog-ID):	1871756464