{"product_id":"mobilizing-minerva-9780252074967","title":"Mobilizing Minerva","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe case for woman suffrage, economic equality, and citizenship in WWI\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Jensen astutely analyzes the interplay between US women's attempts to attain professional and civic equality and overcome gender-based violence during WWI. . . . She expertly interweaves case studies and gender representations from women activists, popular culture, wartime propaganda, real-life accounts, and a host of other sources. Highly recommended.\"--\u003ci\u003eChoice \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Not simply a tale about World War I or the women's suffrage movement, but a story of the complicated intersection of gender, citizenship, violence, and war in the early twentieth century.”--\u003ci\u003eH-Minerva\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e “\u003ci\u003eMobilizing Minerva\u003c\/i\u003e is a useful analysis that contributes thoughtfully to the history of women, gender, war, and antiviolence activism and joins a growing body of literature that places the suffrage campaign within a much wider context of women’s activism.”--\u003ci\u003eOregon Historical Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Kimberly Jensen’s study of women in the First World War is a valuable contribution to the expanding scholarship on the American social and military history of that conflict.”--\u003ci\u003eMilitary History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A fascinating and well-researched book on the mobilization of American women during the First World War.\"--\u003ci\u003eMinerva Journal of Women and War\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"As we struggle to understand the roots of violence against women and also to train women in the military and police forces to exercise violence in the name of the state, Kimberly Jensen's timely book helps us place important challenges in historical context. Jensen's imaginative research reveals many unappreciated dimensions of the First World War; her wise analysis deepens our understanding of civilian and military culture. An important book.\"--Linda K. Kerber, author of \u003ci\u003eNo Constitutional Right to Be Ladies: Women and the Obligations of Citizenship\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The archives and popular printed magazines and papers that Jensen has tracked down are full of juicy insight into both the anti-suffrage and suffrage debates. She does a superb job of showing the reader how America's entrance into WWI affected those suffrage debates and discourses.\"--Cynthia Enloe, author of \u003ci\u003eBananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eManeuvers: The International Politics of Militarizing Women's Lives\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface: \"Mobilizing Woman Power\" in the First World War   vii\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments   xv\u003cbr\u003e Prelude: The Washington, D.C., Suffrage Parade of 1913   1\u003cbr\u003e 1. Negotiating Gender and Citizenship: Context for the First World War   11\u003cbr\u003e 2. Gender and Violence: Context and Experience in the Era of the World War   21\u003cbr\u003e 3. \"Whether We Vote or Not -- We Are Going to Shoot\": Women and Armed Defense on the Home Front   36\u003cbr\u003e 4. \"The Fighting, Biting, and Scratching Kind\": Good Girls, Bad Girls, and Women's Soldiering   60\u003cbr\u003e 5. Uncle Sam's Loyal Nieces: Women Physicians, Citizenship, and Wartime Military Service   77\u003cbr\u003e 6. Helping Women Who Pay the \"Rapacious Price\" of War: Women's Medical Units in France   98\u003cbr\u003e 7. A Base Hospital Is Not a Coney Island Dance Hall: Nurses, Citizenship, Hostile Work Environment, and Military Rank   116\u003cbr\u003e 8. \"Danger Ahead for the Country\": Civic Roles and Safety for the Consumer-Civilian in Postwar America   142\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion   165\u003cbr\u003e Notes   177\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography   209\u003cbr\u003e Index   231","brand":"University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400480694615,"sku":"9780252074967","price":23.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780252074967.jpg?v=1730470790","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/mobilizing-minerva-9780252074967","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}