Women Activists between War and Peace

Europe, 1918-1923
Herausgegeben:Sharp, Ingrid; Stibbe, Matthew

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Produktbeschreibung

Women Activists between War and Peace employs a comparative approach in exploring women's political and social activism across the European continent in the years that followed the First World War. It brings together leading scholars in the field to discuss the contribution of women's movements in, and individual female activists from, Austria, Bulgaria, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Russia and the United States. The book contains an introduction that helpfully outlines key concepts and broader, European-wide issues and concerns, such as peace, democracy and the role of the national and international in constructing the new, post-war political order. It then proceeds to examine the nature of women's activism through the prism of five pivotal topics: _ Suffrage and nationalism_ Pacifism and internationalism _ Revolution and socialism _ Journalism and print media _ War and the body A timeline and illustrations are also included in the book, along with a useful guide to further reading. This is a vitally important text for all students of women's history, twentieth-century Europe and the legacy of the First World War.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 259652
• NIPPOD
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 156mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 464g
• ISBN-13: 9781472578778
• ISBN-10: 1472578775
• Artikelnr.: 45060863

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations Notes on ContributorsAcknowledgements List of Abbreviations Time-Line: Women Activists between War and Peace, 1918-1923 Introduction: Women Activists between War and Peace: Europe, 1918-1923Ingrid Sharp and Matthew Stibbe 1. Suffrage and Nationalism in Comparative Perspective: Britain, Hungary, Finland and the Transnational Experience of Rosika SchwimmerLead authors: Julie V. Gottlieb and Judith Szapor, with Tiina Lintunen (on Finland) and Dagmar Wernitznig (on Rosika Schwimmer) 2. Internationalism, Pacifism, Transnationalism: Women's Movements and the Building of a Sustainable Peace in the Post-War WorldLead author: Ingrid Sharp, with Judit Acsády (on Hungary) and Nikolai Vukov (on Bulgaria) 3. Women and Socialist Revolution, 1917-1923 Lead author: Matthew Stibbe (on Germany), with Olga Shnyrova (on Russia) and Veronika Helfert (on Austria) 4. Mediating the National and the International: Women, Journalism and Hungary in the Aftermath of the First World WarLead authors: Maria DiCenzo, Judit Acsády, David Hudson and Balázs Sipos 5. Women's Movements, War and the Body Lead authors: Alison S. Fell and Susan R. Grayzel Further Reading

Rezensionen

This collection of essays opens a new window onto women's activism in post-WWI Europe by reaching beyond the boundaries of Western Europe to include the voices of women from Eastern Europe and the Scandinavian region. The essays included number only five, but they are a rich collaboration between and among scholars from a variety of historic fields. The contributors have mined new sources to analyze the roles of women activists in journalism, political movements, the pacifist movement, and women's citizenship rights; specifically, a woman's right to vote as well as her relationship with her own body as the physical and psychological traumas of war encroached on and forever modified understandings of "male" and "female." Consequently, these essay masterfully weave together women's postwar activism by viewing the sources through various lenses in order to examine the ways in which activism belied national boundaries and brought women together from disparate social, cultural, and geographic places to work toward a shared goal. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above. CHOICE