Women Activists Between War and Peace: Europe, 1918-1923

ISBN-13: 9781472578778 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 288 str.

Ingrid Sharp; Matthew Stibbe

Opis

Women Activists Between War and Peace employs a transnational approach in exploring women's activism across the European continent in the years that followed the First World War. It brings together leading scholars in the field from the UK, the USA, Canada and Bulgaria to discuss aspects of women's activism in and individual female activists from Germany, Hungary, the UK, Finland, Bulgaria, Russia, Austria and Slovenia. Following an introduction that helpfully outlines key concepts, such as democracy, suffrage, cultural demobilisation/remobilisation, militarism, pacifism and transnationalism, the book proceeds to examine the nature of women's activism through the prism of six key topics: * Suffrage and nationalism
* Revolution and socialism
* Peace and human rights
* Journalism and print media
* Science, medicine and the technology of warfare
* The commemoration of the war dead A timeline and illustrations are also included in the book, along with a useful bibliography. This is a vitally important text for all students of women's history, twentieth-century European history and the legacy of the First World War.

Recenzje

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

Spis treści

List of IllustrationsNotes on ContributorsAcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsTime-Line: Women Activists between War and Peace, 1918-1923Introduction: Women Activists between War and Peace: Europe, 1918-1923Ingrid Sharp and Matthew Stibbe1. 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, 1917-1923Lead 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 Sipos5. Women's Movements, War and the BodyLead authors: Alison S. Fell and Susan R. GrayzelFurther Reading

O autorze

Ingrid Sharp is Professor of German Cultural and Gender History at the University of Leeds, UK. She is the editor of The Women's Movement in Wartime (co-edited with Alison Fell, 2007) and of Aftermaths of War (2011) and Women Activists between War and Peace (2017), both co-edited with Matthew Stibbe. Matthew Stibbe is Professor of Modern European History at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. He is the author of several books, including Germany, 1914-1933: Politics, Society and Culture (2010), and the editor of several volumes of essays on 20th-century European themes, including Aftermaths of War (2011) and Women Activists between War and Peace (2017), both co-edited with Ingrid Sharp.