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The women's movement in wartime

international perspectives, 1914–19

edited byAlison S. FellIngrid Sharp

Abstract

This comparative, interdisciplinary book explores the responses of the women's movement to World War I in all of the major belligerent nations. The contributors cover key topics including women's relationship with the state, women's war service, mothers in wartime, suffrage, peace and the aftermath of war, and women's guilt and responsibility.

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Introduction

the women's movement and the First World War

Alison S. FellIngrid Sharp

pp.1-17

https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230210790_1
Martial spirit and mobilization myths

bourgeois women and the "ideas of 1914" in Germany

Claudia Siebrecht

pp.38-52

https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230210790_3
"French women do not wish to talk about peace"

Julie Siegfried and the response of the conseil national des femmes Françaises to the First World War

Alison S. Fell

pp.53-66

https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230210790_4
Blaming the women

women's "responsibility" for the First World War

Ingrid Sharp

pp.67-87

https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230210790_5
In a different voice

responses of Hungarian feminism to the first world war

Judit Acsády

pp.105-123

https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230210790_7
Transforming utopia

the "league for the protection of mothers and sexual reform" in the First World War

Peter Davies

pp.211-226

https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230210790_13

Publication details

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Place: Basingstoke

Year: 2007

Pages: 272

DOI: 10.1057/9780230210790

ISBN (hardback): 978-1-349-28576-1

ISBN (digital): 978-0-230-21079-0

Full citation:

Fell Alison S., Sharp Ingrid (2007) The women's movement in wartime: international perspectives, 1914–19. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.