Gender and the First World War

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction: Women’s and Gender History of the First World War — Topics, Concepts, Perspectives....Pages 1-15
Women Behind the Lines: The Friuli Region as a Case Study of Total Mobilization, 1915–1917....Pages 16-35
Imagining and Communicating Violence: The Correspondence of a Berlin Family, 1914–1918....Pages 36-51
Love in the Trenches: German Soldiers’ Conceptions of Sexual Deviance and Hegemonic Masculinity in the First World War....Pages 52-71
Visualizing ‘War Hysterics’: Strategies of Feminization and Re-Masculinization in Scientific Cinematography, 1916–1918....Pages 72-88
‘Mentally broken, physically a wreck…’: Violence in War Accounts of Nurses in Austro-Hungarian Service....Pages 89-107
Remembering French and British First World War Heroines....Pages 108-126
The Baby in the Gas Mask: Motherhood, Wartime Technology, and the Gendered Division Between the Fronts During and After the First World War....Pages 127-143
The Female Mourner: Gender and the Moral Economy of Grief During the First World War....Pages 144-162
French Boys and Girls in the Great War: Gender and the History of Children’s Experiences, 1914–1918....Pages 163-175
Towards a New Internationalism: Pacifist Journals Edited by Women, 1914–1919....Pages 176-194
‘A foolish dream of sisterhood’: Anti-Pacifist Debates in the German Women’s Movement, 1914–1919....Pages 195-213
War Activities and Citizenship Rights in and outside the Occupied Zone: Lithuanian Women During the First World War....Pages 214-230
Love for the Nation in Times of War: Strategies and Discourses of the National and Political Mobilization of Slovene Women in Carinthia from 1917 to 1920....Pages 231-250
Back Matter....Pages 251-265