Gender and the First World War

The First World War cannot be sufficiently documented and understood without considering the analytical category of gender. This exciting volume examines key issues in this area, including the 'home front' and battlefront, violence, pacifism, citizenship and emphasizes the relevance of gen...

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Group Author: Hammerle, Christa; Uberegger, Oswald; Bader-Zaar, Birgitta
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Literature type: Electronic Software eBook
Language: English
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Online Access: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137302205
Summary: The First World War cannot be sufficiently documented and understood without considering the analytical category of gender. This exciting volume examines key issues in this area, including the 'home front' and battlefront, violence, pacifism, citizenship and emphasizes the relevance of gender within the expanding field of First World War Studies.
Item Description: Electronic book text.
Epublication based on: 9781137302199.
Carrier Form: 280 p. : 11 b&w, halftones.
ISBN: 9781137302205 :
1137302208 :
CLC: K143
Contents: 1. Introduction: Women's and Gender History of the First World War - Topics, Concepts, Perspectives-- Christa Hammerle, Oswald Uberegger and Birgitta Bader Zaar 2. Women Behind the Lines: The Friuli Region as a Case Study of Total Mobilization, 1915-1917-- Matteo Ermacora 3. Imagining and Communicating Violence: The Correspondence of a Berlin Family, 1914 to 1918-- Dorothee Wierling 4. Love in the Trenches: German Soldiers' Conceptions of Sexual Deviance and Hegemonic Masculinity in the First World War-- Jason Crouthamel 5. Visualizing 'War Hysterics': Strategies of Feminization and Re-Mascu