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Taylor & Francis Ltd Women and the First World War
Book SynopsisIn this revised version of a ground-breaking global history of women and the First World War, Susan Grayzel shows the multiple ways in which women faced the enormous challenges the war presented, both the losses as well as the opportunities that the war provided.The First World War was a total war requiring the mobilisation of millions of both civilians and combatants. It decisively shaped the modern world. A century after the signing of the last peace treaty to end this conflict, its experiences and legacies for women continue to inspire debate and interest. With new evidence from the tremendous outpouring of scholarship on women in all participant states, including those in occupied territories, Europe and its overseas empires, Asia, the Middle East, Africa and the United States over the last twenty years, this edition greatly expands the coverage of the war geographically while continuing to showcase diverse women's voices. Topical in its approach, it allows for a thoroughTrade Review'an innovative addition to the series...This book will prove invaluable for those seeking a comparitative analysis of the women's question in the early twentieth century.'Richard Brown, The Historical Association website'the broad range of topics, collection of documents, and bibliography make this a very useful starting point for undergraduate students.'Deborah D. Buffton, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, H-Women, H-Net ReviewsTable of ContentsPart 1: FRAMEWORKS 1. INTRODUCTION Part 2: EXPERIENCES OF WAR 2. THE WAR BEGINS: PROPAGANDA, RECRUITMENT AND STATE SUPPORT OF FAMILIES 3. WOMEN’S WAR WORK: REMUNERATIVE, VOLUNTARY AND FAMILIAL 4. WOMEN IN THE LINE OF FIRE 5. MORALE, MORALITY AND SEXUALITY 6. ANTI-WAR PROTEST, DISSENT AND REVOLUTION Part 3: LEGACIES OF WAR 7. ASSESSING SOME OF THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE WAR FOR WOMEN 8. CONCLUSION Part 4: DOCUMENTS
£34.19
Berghahn Books, Incorporated Evidence, History and the Great War: Historians
Book Synopsis In the English-speaking world the Great War maintains a tenacious grip on the public imagination, and also continues to draw historians to an event which has been interpreted variously as a symbol of modernity, the midwife to the twentieth century and an agent of social change. Although much 'common knowledge' about the war and its aftermath has included myth, simplification and generalisation, this has often been accepted uncritically by popular and academic writers alike. While Britain may have suffered a surfeit of war books, many telling much the same story, there is far less written about the impact of the Great War in other combatant nations. Its history was long suppressed in both fascist Italy and the communist Soviet Union: only recently have historians of Russia begun to examine a conflict which killed, maimed and displaced so many millions. Even in France and Germany the experience of 1914-18 has often been overshadowed by the Second World War. The war's social history is now ripe for reassessment and revision. The essays in this volume incorporate a European perspective, engage with the historiography of the war, and consider how the primary textural, oral and pictorial evidence has been used - or abused. Subjects include the politics of shellshock, the impact of war on women, the plight of refugees, food distribution in Berlin and portrait photography, all of which illuminate key debates in war history.Trade Review “…a series of ten stimulating essays on differing aspects of World War One, loosely, but not exclusively, linked around the theme of the role played by women. As such it is an important collection, which has already gone into a second printing. While some of the essays sum up the current state of play after decades of historical controversy, others are pioneering ventures, opening up new areas for further research. As the editor says quite accurately in her introduction (p. 8): ‘the essays in this book bring something fresh to debates about the war’.” Nordost Archiv "…the student of the Great War and gender is well served, and Braybon’s introduction provides an excellent overview of the various historiographical themes, whilst her footnotes provide a useful guide to further reading." History "Readers will not be disappointed by this scholarly, yet accessible, collection of essays." Centre for First World War StudiesTable of Contents List of Illustrations Note on Terminology Introduction Chapter 1. ‘Though in a Picture Only’: Portrait Photography and the Commemoration of the First World War Catherine Moriarty Chapter 2. Making Spectaculars: Museums and how we remember Gender in Wartime Deborah Thom Chapter 3. British ‘War Enthusiasm’ in 1914: a Reassessment Adrian Gregory Chapter 4. Winners or Losers: Women’s Symbolic Role in the War Story Gail Braybon Chapter 5. Liberating Women? Examining Gender, Morality and Sexuality in First World War Britain and France Susan Grayzel Chapter 6. The Great War and Gender Relations: the Case of French Women and the First World War Revisited James McMillan Chapter 7. Mental Cases: British Shellshock and the Politics of Interpretation Laurinda Stryker Chapter 8. Food and the German Home Front: Evidence from Berlin Keith Allen Chapter 9. The Epic and the Domestic: Women and War in Russia, 1914–1917 Peter Gatrell Chapter 10. Italian Women During the Great War Simonetta Ortaggi Notes on Contributors Index
£89.10
Berghahn Books, Incorporated Evidence, History and the Great War: Historians
Book Synopsis In the English-speaking world the Great War maintains a tenacious grip on the public imagination, and also continues to draw historians to an event which has been interpreted variously as a symbol of modernity, the midwife to the twentieth century and an agent of social change. Although much 'common knowledge' about the war and its aftermath has included myth, simplification and generalisation, this has often been accepted uncritically by popular and academic writers alike. While Britain may have suffered a surfeit of war books, many telling much the same story, there is far less written about the impact of the Great War in other combatant nations. Its history was long suppressed in both fascist Italy and the communist Soviet Union: only recently have historians of Russia begun to examine a conflict which killed, maimed and displaced so many millions. Even in France and Germany the experience of 1914-18 has often been overshadowed by the Second World War. The war's social history is now ripe for reassessment and revision. The essays in this volume incorporate a European perspective, engage with the historiography of the war, and consider how the primary textural, oral and pictorial evidence has been used - or abused. Subjects include the politics of shellshock, the impact of war on women, the plight of refugees, food distribution in Berlin and portrait photography, all of which illuminate key debates in war history.Trade Review “…a series of ten stimulating essays on differing aspects of World War One, loosely, but not exclusively, linked around the theme of the role played by women. As such it is an important collection, which has already gone into a second printing. While some of the essays sum up the current state of play after decades of historical controversy, others are pioneering ventures, opening up new areas for further research. As the editor says quite accurately in her introduction (p. 8): ‘the essays in this book bring something fresh to debates about the war’.” Nordost Archiv "…the student of the Great War and gender is well served, and Braybon’s introduction provides an excellent overview of the various historiographical themes, whilst her footnotes provide a useful guide to further reading." History "Readers will not be disappointed by this scholarly, yet accessible, collection of essays." Centre for First World War StudiesTable of Contents List of Illustrations Note on Terminology Introduction Chapter 1. ‘Though in a Picture Only’: Portrait Photography and the Commemoration of the First World War Catherine Moriarty Chapter 2. Making Spectaculars: Museums and how we remember Gender in Wartime Deborah Thom Chapter 3. British ‘War Enthusiasm’ in 1914: a Reassessment Adrian Gregory Chapter 4. Winners or Losers: Women’s Symbolic Role in the War Story Gail Braybon Chapter 5. Liberating Women? Examining Gender, Morality and Sexuality in First World War Britain and France Susan Grayzel Chapter 6. The Great War and Gender Relations: the Case of French Women and the First World War Revisited James McMillan Chapter 7. Mental Cases: British Shellshock and the Politics of Interpretation Laurinda Stryker Chapter 8. Food and the German Home Front: Evidence from Berlin Keith Allen Chapter 9. The Epic and the Domestic: Women and War in Russia, 1914–1917 Peter Gatrell Chapter 10. Italian Women During the Great War Simonetta Ortaggi Notes on Contributors Index
£25.16
