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The Mater Dolorosa on the Battlefield— Mourning Mothers in German Women’s Art of the First World War
(10,203 words)
Siebrecht, Claudia - The
Mater Dolorosa on the Ba…
Best Boys and Aching Hearts: The Rhetoric of Romance as Social Control in Wartime Magazines for Young Women
(9,082 words)
Acton, Carol - Best Boys and Aching Hearts: The Rhetoric of Romance as Social Control in Wartime Magazines for Young Women
Keywords: aching heart…
Women on the Move: Shifting Patterns in Migration and the Colonization of Taiwan
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Dawley, Evan - Women on the Move: Shifting Patterns in Migration and the Colonization of Taiwan …
Introduction: Women’s Movements and Female Activists in the Aftermath of War: International Perspectives 1918-1923
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Sharp, Ingrid; Stibbe, Matthew - Introduction: Women’s Movements and Female Activists in the Aftermath of War: International Perspectives 1918-1923
Keywords: female activists | Joan Scott | political rights | women's contribution
ISFWWS-Keywords: Women and War | General | Legacy | Politics | Gender | Home fronts
Abstract: This chapter gives an account of the role played by organised women and female activists in the aftermath of war, and addresses the question identified by Joan Scott in her essay for the seminal volume
Behind the Lines (1987), asking not simply what impact the war had on these individuals and groups and how they themselves influenced events, but what our knowledge and understanding of these women's aims and strategies tell us about the politics of war and the transiti…
U.S. Military Wives in the Philippines, from the Philippine War to World War II
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Alvah, Donna - U.S. Military Wives in the Philippines, from the Philippine War to World War II
Keywords: …
Indian Soldiers’ Experiences in France during World War I: Seeing Europe from the Rear of the Front
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Markovits, Claude - Indian Soldiers’ Experiences in France during World War I: Seeing Europe from the Rear of the Front
Keywords: India | Western Front | Culture | French society during the war | Women and War | Religion | Literature | Politics | The French and British Empires
The World in World Wars Heike Liebau, Katrin Bromber , Katharina Lange , Dyala Hamzah and Ravi Ahuja , (2010)
Publication Editor: Brill, The Netherlands, 2010
e-ISBN: 9789004188471
DOI:10.1163/ej.9789004185456.i-618.9 © 2010 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands Markovits, Claude
“Having Seen Enough”: Eleanor Franklin Egan and the Journalism of Great War Displacement
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Hudson, David - “Having Seen Enough”: Eleanor Franklin Egan and the Journalism of Great War Displacement
Keywords: …
Soldiers, Members of Parliament, Social Activists: The Polish Women’s Movement after World War I
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kuźma-Markowska, Sylwia - Soldiers, Members of Parliament, Social Activists: The Polish Women’s Movement after World War I
Keywords: civic organisations | commemoration | Ochotnicza Legia Kobiet (OLK) | Polish women | women's suffrage | World War I
ISFWWS-Keywords: Poland | Women and War | Politics | Home fronts | Soldiers and Combat | Legacy | Russia | Politics | Society | Masculinity
Abstract: At the beginning of the twentieth century, Polish women living in all three partitions not only lacked political rights but were also denied freedom of …
Britain in the Balkans: The Response of the Scottish Women’s Hospital Units
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Liddington, Jill - Britain in the Balkans: The Response of the Scottish Women’s Hospital Units
Keywords: Balkans | Scottish Women's Hospitals (SWH) | Serbia
ISFWWS-Keywords: Britain | Women and War | Medicine | The Balkans and Eastern Europe | Russia | The United States of America | Legacy | Politics
Abstract: This chapter assesses the significance of the contribution of one selected Scottish Women's Hospitals (SWH) relief initiative during aftermath of war, that of the American Unit. It has been selected because of its close rel…
Women Activists in Albania following Independence and World War I
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Musaj, Fatmira; Nicholson, Beryl - Women Activists in Albania following Independence and World War I
Keywords: Albania | women's organisations | World War I
ISFWWS-Keywords: The Balkans and Eastern Europe | Women and War | Society | Politics | Pre-war period | The Ottoman Empire and the Middle East | Greece | General | The United States of America
Abstract: …
The Aftermaths of Defeat: The Fallen, the Catastrophe, and the Public Response of Women to the End of the First World War in Bulgaria
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Vukov, Nikolai - The Aftermaths of Defeat: The Fallen, the Catastrophe, and the Public Response of Women to the End of the First World War in Bulgaria
Keywords: Bulgarian public life | cultural demobilisation | female activists | post-war stabilisation | women movements
ISFWWS-Keywords: Bulgaria | Women and War | Society | Politics | Gender | Home fronts | Economy | Pre-war period
Abstract: This chapter seeks to examine the role of female activists and organised women's movements in Bulgarian public life after the war, focusing in particular on th…
Aftermaths of War
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Ingrid Sharp, Matthew Stibbe (eds.), Aftermaths of War
Publication Editor: Brill, The Netherlands, 2011
Keywords: Women and War | Home fronts | Politics | Gender | French society during the war | Medicine | Germany | Balkans | Poland | Austria-Hungary
Abstract: This volume of essays provides the first major comparative study of the role played by women’s movements and individual female activists in enabling or thwarting the transition from war to peace in Europe in the crucial years 1918 to 1923.
Table of contents: Front Matter pp. i-xxii Introduction: Women’s Movements and Female A…
“How Much of an ‘Experience’ Do We Want the Public to Receive?”: Trench Reconstructions and Popular Images of the Great War
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Espley, Richard - “How Much of an ‘Experience’ Do We Want the Public to Receive?”: Trench Reconstructions and Popular Images of the Great War
Keywords: 1990s memory culture | Britain | Distant Bridges | First World War | The Unknown Soldier
ISFWWS-Keywords: Britain | Great Britain | Women and War | Literature | Legacy | Western Front | Soldiers and Combat | Culture | Society
Abstract: An approach to addressing the shifts and changes in 1990s memory culture with regard to the First World War becomes manifest in the construction of a narrative framewo…
After the Vote was Won. The Fate of the Women’s Suffrage Movement in Russia After the October Revolution: Individuals, Ideas and Deeds
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Shnyrova, Olga - After the Vote was Won. The Fate of the Women’s Suffrage Movement in Russia After the October Revolution: Individuals, Ideas and Deeds
Keywords: October Revolution | Russia | women's suffrage
ISFWWS-Keywords: Russia | Politics | Gender | Intellectuals and the War | Women and War | Society | Pre-war period
Abstract: As the women's movement in Russia has its own specific history which is connected with the peculiarities of the political and economic development of the country, this chapter starts with a short preamble …