Billie Melman (ed.)

Borderlines

Genders and Identities in War and Peace 1870-1930
Herausgeber: Melman, Billie

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Produktbeschreibung

This work weaves together the study of gender during World War I with that of the evolution of nationalism and colonialism. Locating the war in the longer era, 1870-1939, the collection examines the shifts of the borders of femininities and masculinities in their relations to women's and men's lived experiences of global modern war, revolution and social break-up. By including work on Great Britain, France, Germany and the United States, as well as studies on Russia, Turkey, Greece, Egypt, Palestine and West Africa, the author challenges some current interpretations of the gendered experience of war, especially that of women, and its relation to national identity.

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Borderlines weaves together the study of gender with that of the evolution of nationalism and colonialism. Its broad, comparative perspective will rechart the war experiences and identities of women and men during this period of transformation from peace to war, and again to peace. Drawing on a wide range of materials, from government policy and propaganda to subversive trench journalism and performance, from fiction, drama and film to the record of activists in various movements and in various countries, Borderlines weaves together the study of gender with that of the evolution of nationalism and colonialism. Its broad, comparative perspective will rechart the war experiences and identities of women and men during this period of transformation from peace to war, and again to peace.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 472
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Januar 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 829g
• ISBN-13: 9780415911139
• ISBN-10: 0415911133
• Artikelnr.: 21082307

Autorenporträt

Billie Melman is Associate Professor of History at Tel-Aviv University and the author of Women's Orient's and Women and the Popular Imagination in the Twenties.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part I Gendering the Nation: Definitions and Boundaries: The
British Imperial State and the Construction of National Identities; From
Empire to Nation: Images of Women and War in Ottoman Political Cartoons,
1908-1923; Men and Soldiers: British Conscripts, Concepts of Masculinity,
and the Great War; Family, Masculinity, and Heroism in Russian War Posters
of the First World War; Re-Generation: Nation and the Construction of
Gender in Peace and War-Palestine Jews, 1900-1918; Taking Risks for
Pictures: The Heroics of Cinematic Realism in World War I; Part II
Borderlands: Identities and Sexualities; Fin-de-Sieck Theatrics: Male
Impersonation and Lesbian Desire; Lesbians before Lesbianism: Sexual
Identity in Early Twentieth-Century British Fiction Spectacles and
Sexualities: The Mise-en-Scene of the Tirailleur Senegalais on the Western
Front, 1914-1920; Objects to Possess and Discard: The Representation of
Jews and Women by British Women Novelists of the 1920s; Part III Dissent
and Acquiescence: War, Feminism, and Female Action; Challenging Traditions:
Denominational Feminism in Britain, 1910-1920; Religion, Emancipation, and
Politics in the Confessional Women's Movement in Germany, 1900-1933;
Ideological Crossroads: Feminism, Pacifism, and Socialism; The Politics of
Female Notables in Postwar Egypt; Part IV Moving Boundaries: Work, Gender,
and Mobilization; Public Functions, Private Premises: Female Professional
Identity and the Domestic-Service Paradigm in Britain, c. 1850-1930; Emily
Goes to War: Explaining the Recruitment to the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps
in World War I; Work, Gender, and Identity in Peace and War: France
1890-1930; Class, Ethnicity, and Gender in Post-Ottoman Thessaloniki: The
Great Tobacco Strike of 1914