The Women’s Movement in Wartime: International Perspectives, 1914–19

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction: The Women’s Movement and the First World War....Pages 1-17
‘Indian Sisters! … Send your husbands, brothers, sons’: India, Women and the First World War....Pages 18-37
Martial Spirit and Mobilization Myths: Bourgeois Women and the ‘Ideas of 1914’ in Germany....Pages 38-52
‘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....Pages 53-66
Blaming the Women: Women’s ‘Responsibility’ for the First World War....Pages 67-87
The Creation of an Icon in Defence of Hélène Brion: Pacifists and Feminists in the French Minority Media....Pages 88-104
In a Different Voice: Responses of Hungarian Feminism to the First World War....Pages 105-123
Feminism and Suffrage in Russia: Women, War and Revolution 1914–1917....Pages 124-140
The Pankhursts and the Great War....Pages 141-157
‘The Woman Who Dared’: Major Mabel St Clair Stobart....Pages 158-174
Esther Pohl Lovejoy, M.D., the First World War, and a Feminist Critique of Wartime Violence....Pages 175-193
Elisabeth Rotten and the ‘Auskunfts- und Hilfsstelle für Deutsche im Ausland und Ausländer in Deutschland’, 1914–1919....Pages 194-210
Transforming Utopia: The ‘League for the Protection of Mothers and Sexual Reform’ in the First World War....Pages 211-226
The ‘Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom’ and Reconciliation after the Great War....Pages 227-243
Sacrificial Rituals and Wounded Hearts: The Uses of Christian Symbolism in French and German Women’s Responses to the First World War....Pages 244-259
Back Matter....Pages 260-272