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

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Contents
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Time-Line: Women Activists between War and Peace, 1918–23
Introduction: Women Activists between War and Peace: Europe, 1918–23
	New organizational dilemmas
	New ideological departures
	The body and advances in the science and technologies of war
	The role of geography
	Conclusion
	Notes
Chapter 1 Suffrage and Nationalism in Comparative Perspective: Britain, Hungary, Finland and the Transnational Experience of Rosika Schwimmer
	The British case: The classic example of the achievement of women’s suffrage?
	A hollow victory: The rise of nationalism and the decline of the liberal women’s movement in Hungary in the post-war era of women’s suffrage
	The Finnish case: Pioneer of women’s suffrage and the politics of nationalism
	Rosika Schwimmer in the aftermath of suffrage and war
	Conclusion
	Notes
Chapter 2 Internationalism, Pacifism, Transnationalism: Women’s Movements and the Building of a Sustainable Peace in the Post-War World
	Barriers to internationalism in the aftermath of war
	Bulgaria
	Germany
	Hungary
	Rosika Schwimmer in the aftermath of war
	Return to the international community
	League of Nations
	Limits to internationalist vision
	Conclusion
	Notes
Chapter 3 Women and Socialist Revolution, 1917–23
	Revolutions and women’s representation
	Socialist women’s international anti-war activism and attitudes to violence
	Communist women between vision and reality
	Conclusion
	Notes
Chapter 4 Mediating the National and the International: Women, Journalism and Hungary in the Aftermath of the First World War
	The role of the women’s press in international feminist activism in the aftermath of the First World War
	The IWSA after the First World War
	Feminist press at the national level
	Feminist journals in Hungary: Interactions between local and international publications
	Feminist periodicals in Budapest
	International news in feminist journals
	Media representations of femininity and gender relations in post-war Hungary: Conflicts between the national and the international
	American women reporting from Hungary in 1919
	Conclusion
	Notes
Chapter 5 Women’s Movements, War and the Body
	Women and the politics of the exhumation of bodies in France and Britain
	Modern attacks on the bodies of women and children: The feminist response
	Conclusion
	Notes
Further Reading
	General works and edited volumes of essays
	Women’s movements, suffrage and nationalism
	Women’s movements, internationalism and pacifism
	Women, socialism and revolution
	Women’s movements, journalism and the media
	Women’s movements, war and the body
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