Women S Identities At War

Author : Susan R. Grayzel
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781469620817

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Women's Identities at War by Susan R. Grayzel Pdf

There are few moments in history when the division between the sexes seems as "natural" as during wartime: men go off to the "war front," while women stay behind on the "home front." But the very notion of the home front was an invention of the First World War, when, for the first time, "home" and "domestic" became adjectives that modified the military term "front." Such an innovation acknowledged the significant and presumably new contributions of civilians, especially women, to the war effort. Yet, as Susan Grayzel argues, throughout the war, traditional notions of masculinity and femininity survived, primarily through the maintenance of--and indeed reemphasis on--soldiering and mothering as the core of gender and national identities. Drawing on sources that range from popular fiction and war memorials to newspapers and legislative debates, Grayzel analyzes the effects of World War I on ideas about civic participation, national service, morality, sexuality, and identity in wartime Britain and France. Despite the appearance of enormous challenges to gender roles due to the upheavals of war, the forces of stability prevailed, she says, demonstrating the Western European gender system's remarkable resilience.

Author : Billie Melman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136043901

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Borderlines by Billie Melman Pdf

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.

Author : Susan R Grayzel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Sex role
ISBN : 1003003273

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Women and the First World War by Susan R Grayzel Pdf

"In 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 since 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 thorough exploration of the intersectional experiences of women. Including new documents highlighting the ways in which women wrote their wars and that detail the impact of this conflict on women of different statuses and geographies, this book opens the door to further inquiry on the women of the First World War. With documents providing first-hand accounts, a chronology, and glossary, the book is an ideal text for students studying the First World War or the history of women"--

Author : Jean Bethke Elshtain
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1995-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226206264

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Women and War by Jean Bethke Elshtain Pdf

Jean Elshtain examines how the myths of Man as "Just Warrior" and Woman as "Beautiful Soul" serve to recreate and secure women's social position as noncombatants and men's identity as warriors. Elshtain demonstrates how these myths are undermined by the reality of female bellicosity and sacrificial male love, as well as the moral imperatives of just wars.

Author : Sharon Ouditt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000158717

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Fighting Forces, Writing Women by Sharon Ouditt Pdf

In a period of high idealism, and 'titanic illimitable death' women ofter found themselves longing to play an active role alongside their male compatriots. In this fascinating work, Sharon Ouditt examines the traumatic nature of women's experiences during the Great War, and the complex ideological structures they constructed in order to legitimate their position in the public world of work and politics. Using a wealth of historical material - contemporary propaganda, journals, magazines, memoirs and fiction - Sharon Ouditt challenges the notion that women achieved sudden and unproblematic independence, and demonstrates the ways in which women mediated their attraction to a fixed female identity with their desire for radical social change.

Author : Susan Rachel Grayzel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:C3385048

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Women's Identities at War by Susan Rachel Grayzel Pdf

Author : Margaret R. Higonnet,Jane Jenson,Sonya Michel
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1987-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300044291

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Behind the Lines by Margaret R. Higonnet,Jane Jenson,Sonya Michel Pdf

Essays analyze the two world wars in respect to gender politics and reassesses the differences between men and women in relation to war

Author : Joyce P. Kaufman,Kristen P. Williams
Publisher : Kumarian Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781565493094

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Women and War by Joyce P. Kaufman,Kristen P. Williams Pdf

Women everywhere have long struggled for recognition as equal, productive members of society, worthy of taking part in the political process. These struggles become even more pronounced in times of conflict and war, when the symbolism and myths of womanhood are used to stoke nationalistic ideas about the survival of the state. Yet for all the rhetoric that takes place in their name, it’s men who generally make decisions regarding war. Women and War examines how women respond to situations of conflict. Drawing on both traditional and feminist international relations theory, it explores the roles that women play before, during and after a conflict, how they spur and respond to nationalist and social movements, and how conceptions of gender are deeply intertwined with ideas about citizenship and the state. As Kaufman and Williams show, women do more than respond to conflict situations; they are active agents in their own right shaping political and historical processes. Their conclusions encourage us to rethink the prevalent assumptions of international relations, history and feminist scholarship and theory.

Author : Lynn Dumenil
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781469631226

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The Second Line of Defense by Lynn Dumenil Pdf

In tracing the rise of the modern idea of the American "new woman," Lynn Dumenil examines World War I's surprising impact on women and, in turn, women's impact on the war. Telling the stories of a diverse group of women, including African Americans, dissidents, pacifists, reformers, and industrial workers, Dumenil analyzes both the roadblocks and opportunities they faced. She richly explores the ways in which women helped the United States mobilize for the largest military endeavor in the nation's history. Dumenil shows how women activists staked their claim to loyal citizenship by framing their war work as homefront volunteers, overseas nurses, factory laborers, and support personnel as "the second line of defense." But in assessing the impact of these contributions on traditional gender roles, Dumenil finds that portrayals of these new modern women did not always match with real and enduring change. Extensively researched and drawing upon popular culture sources as well as archival material, The Second Line of Defense offers a comprehensive study of American women and war and frames them in the broader context of the social, cultural, and political history of the era.

Author : Swati Parashar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134116065

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Women and Militant Wars by Swati Parashar Pdf

This book explores women’s militant activities in insurgent wars and seeks to understand what women ‘do’ in wars. In International Relations, inter-state conflict, anti-state armed insurgency and armed militancy are essentially seen as wars where collective violence (against civilians and security forces) is used to achieve political objectives. Extending the notion of war as ‘politics of injury' to the armed militancy in Indian administered Kashmir and the Tamil armed insurgency in Sri Lanka, this book explores how women participate in militant wars, and how that politics not only shapes the gendered understandings of women’s identities and bodies but is in turn shaped by them. The case studies discussed in the book offer new comparative insight into two different and most prevalent forms of insurgent wars today: religio-political and ethno-nationalist. Empirical analyses of women’s roles in the Sri Lankan Tamil militant group, the LTTE and the logistical, ideological support women provide to militant groups active in Indian administered Kashmir suggest that these insurgent wars have their own gender dynamics in recruitment and operational strategies. Thus, Women and Militant Wars provides an excellent insight into the gender politics of these insurgencies and women’s roles and experiences within them. This book will be of much interest to students and scholars of critical war and security studies, feminist international relations, gender studies, terrorism and political violence, South Asia studies and IR in general.

Author : Maroussia Hajdukowski-Ahmed,Nazilla Khanlou,Helene Moussa
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2008-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0857450263

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Not Born a Refugee Woman by Maroussia Hajdukowski-Ahmed,Nazilla Khanlou,Helene Moussa Pdf

Not Born a Refugee Woman is an in-depth inquiry into the identity construction of refugee women. It challenges and rethinks current identity concepts, policies, and practices in the context of a globalizing environment, and in the increasingly racialized post-September 11th context, from the perspective of refugee women. This collection brings together scholar_practitioners from across a wide range of disciplines. The authors emphasize refugee women’s agency, resilience, and creativity, in the continuum of domestic, civil, and transnational violence and conflicts, whether in flight or in resettlement, during their uprooted journey and beyond. Through the analysis of local examples and international case studies, the authors critically examine gendered and interrelated factors such as location, humanitarian aid, race, cultural norms, and current psycho-social research that affect the identity and well being of refugee women. This volume is destined to a wide audience of scholars, students, policy makers, advocates, and service providers interested in new developments and critical practices in domains related to gender and forced migrations.

Author : Carol Cohn
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780745660660

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Women and Wars by Carol Cohn Pdf

Where are the women? In traditional historical and scholarly accounts of the making and fighting of wars, women are often nowhere to be seen. With few exceptions, war stories are told as if men were the only ones who plan, fight, are injured by, and negotiate ends to wars. As the pages of this book tell, though, those accounts are far from complete. Women can be found at every turn in the (gendered) phenomena of war. Women have participated in the making, fighting, and concluding of wars throughout history, and their participation is only increasing at the turn of the 21st century. Women experience war in multiple ways: as soldiers, as fighters, as civilians, as caregivers, as sex workers, as sexual slaves, refugees and internally displaced persons, as anti-war activists, as community peace-builders, and more. This book at once provides a glimpse into where women are in war, and gives readers the tools to understood women’s (told and untold) war experiences in the greater context of the gendered nature of global social and political life.

Author : Joshua S. Goldstein
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2003-07-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0521001803

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War and Gender by Joshua S. Goldstein Pdf

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Author : Sharon Wood,Erica Moretti
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781683930075

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Annie Chartres Vivanti by Sharon Wood,Erica Moretti Pdf

Annie Chartres Vivanti: Transnational Politics, Identity, and Culture explores the work of British Italian writer Annie Chartres Vivanti (1866-1942). This volume provides a multidisciplinary approach to the study of Vivanti in order to analyze the diverse and complex writing experiences in which she engaged. Essays examine Vivanti’s work through multiple perspectives, taking into account her politics and her career as journalist, writer, and singer as well as her literary works.

Author : Emma Liggins,Elizabeth Nolan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780429939495

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Women's Writing of the First World War by Emma Liggins,Elizabeth Nolan Pdf

The First World War was a transformative experience for women, facilitating their entry into new spaces and alternative spheres of activity, both on the home front and on the edges of danger zones in Europe and beyond. The centenary of the conflict is an appropriate moment to reassess what we choose to remember about women’s roles and responsibilities in this period and how women recorded their experiences. It is timely to (re)consider the narratives of women’s involvement not only as nurses, VADs and mourning mothers, but as pacifist campaigners, poets, war correspondents and contributors to developing genres of war writing. This interdisciplinary volume examines women’s representations of wartime experience across a wide range of genres, including modernist fiction, ghost stories, utopia, poetry, life-writing and journalism. Contributors provide fresh perspectives on women’s written responses to the conflict, exploring women’s war work, constructions of femininity and the maternal in wartime, and the relationship between feminism, suffrage and pacifism. The volume reinforces the importance of the retrieval of women’s wartime experience, urging us to rethink what we choose to commemorate and widening the presence of women in the expanding canon of war writing. This book was originally published as a special issue of Women’s Writing.