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Ausgabe:
Princeton Legacy Library edition 2019
ISBN:
9780691194622
Serie:
Princeton Legacy Library 5277
Inhalt:
Making Peace provides a fresh context for understanding gender relations in interwar Britain, seeing in the emergence of a powerful ideology of motherhood and a reemphasis on separate spheres for men and women a corollary to the political and economic restructuring designed to reestablish social order after World War I. The war had often been explained and justified to the British public by means of images that portrayed women as hostile or frightening—or as victims of sexual assault, as in the Belgian atrocity stories. These sexualized interpretations of war then shaped postwar understandings of gender, as psychiatrists, psychologists, and sexologists drew on metaphors of war to talk about relationships between men and women, likening any conflict between the sexes to the terrible chaos of the war years.Drawing on materials from posters to popular songs, from government reports to journalistic accounts, from memoirs and novels to diaries and letters, Making Peace is a penetrating analysis of how gendered and sexualized depictions of wartime expereinces compelled many Britons to seek in traditional gender arrangements the key to postwar order and security. In the interwar period, many feminists compromised their earlier positions in an effort to contribute to postwar recovery, and justified their demands—for birth control and family endowment, for example—in conservative terms that ultimately hampered their movement.Susan Kingsley Kent is Associate Professor of History at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She is also the author of Sex and Suffrage in Britain, 1860-1914 (Princeton).Originally published in 1993.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905
Inhalt:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. THE SEXUAL REPRESENTATION OF WAR, 1914-1915: REESTABLISHING SEPARATE SPHERES -- Chapter 2. THE SEXUAL REPRESENTATION OF WAR, 1915-1918: SEX, WAR, AND SEX WAR -- Chapter 3. FEMINISTS AT THE FRONT: REINVENTING MASCULINITY -- Chapter 4. THE VOTE: SEXAND SUFFRAGE IN BRITAIN, 1916-1918 -- Chapter 5. POSTWAR DISORDER AND THE SALVATION OF SEX -- Chapter 6. POSTWAR FEMINISM: ESTABLISHINGTHE PEACE -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0691031401
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ISBN 9780691655376
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ISBN 9780691656793
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Kent, Susan Kingsley, 1952 - Making peace Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 1993 ISBN 0691031401
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780691031408
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Großbritannien
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Geschlechterverhältnis
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Erster Weltkrieg
DOI:
10.23943/9780691194622
