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The Mater Dolorosa on the Battlefield— Mourning Mothers in German Women’s Art of the First World War
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Siebrecht, Claudia - The
Mater Dolorosa on the Battlefield— Mourning Mothers in German Women’s Art of the First World War
Keywords: First World War | German women's art | maternal sacrifice
ISFWWS-Keywords: Women and War | Visual Arts | Germany | Religion | Society | Home fronts
Abstract: A predominant theme in women's art of the First World War is that of maternal sacrifice. Contemporary women's literature, short stories and poetry also present the experience of mothers sacrificing their sons for the fatherland as the most im…
Best Boys and Aching Hearts: The Rhetoric of Romance as Social Control in Wartime Magazines for Young Women
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Acton, Carol - Best Boys and Aching Hearts: The Rhetoric of Romance as Social Control in Wartime Magazines for Young Women
Keywords: aching heart | best boy | Our Girls | romance | The Girl's Friend | wartime magazines | young women
ISFWWS-Keywords: Britain | Women and War | Literature | Society | Politics | Masculinity | Gender | Home fronts | Culture
Abstract: Two very similar weekly one-penny magazines,
The Girl’s Friend and
Our Girls, targeting working- and lower middle-class girls in the fifteen-to-twenty age group with their combination of advice columns, fa…
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
ISFWWS-Keywords: Asia | Women and War | Politics | Society | Home fronts
The Decade of the Great War Tosh Minohara , Tze-ki Hon and Evan Dawley , (2014)
Publication Editor: Brill, The Netherlands, 2014
e-ISBN: 9789004274273
DOI: 10.1163/9789004274273_015 © 2014 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands Dawley, Evan
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 …
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: The United States of America | Women and War | Published memoirs and biographies
A Companion to Women’s Military History Barton C. Hacker and Margaret Vining , (2012)
Publication Editor: Brill, The Netherlands, 2012
e-ISBN: 9789004206823
DOI: 10.1163/9789004206823_015 © 2012 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands Alvah, Donna
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: American journalist | Eleanor Franklin Egan | Great War | journalism
ISFWWS-Keywords: The United States of America | Legacy | Literature | Women and War | Politics | The Balkans and Eastern Europe | The Ottoman Empire and the Middle East
Abstract: The Great War presented American journalist Eleanor Franklin Egan with an unmatched tableau, and by the time of the armistice she had cemented her reputation as one of the foremost inte…
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: Albania declared its independence on 28 November 1912, and a provisional government was formed. Independence was seen by the Qiriazi sisters as creating the opportunity for educated women to con…
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 …