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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816966403321

Titolo

Women activists between war and peace : Europe, 1918-1923 / / edited by Ingrid Sharp and Matthew Stibbe

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, NY : , : Bloomsbury Academic, , 2017

ISBN

9781472578792 (Ebook)

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (287 pages)

Disciplina

305.42094

320.082094

Soggetti

Feminism - Europe - History - 20th century

Women political activists - Europe - History - 20th century

World War, 1914-1918 - Social aspects - Europe

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

List of Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Time-Line: Women Activists between War and Peace, 1918-1923 -- Introduction: Women Activists between War and Peace: Europe, 1918-1923 -- 1. Suffrage and Nationalism in Comparative Perspective: Britain, Hungary, Finland and the Transnational Experience of Rosika Schwimmer -- 2. Internationalism, Pacifism, Transnationalism: Women's Movements and the Building of a Sustainable Peace in the Post-War World -- 3. Women and Socialist Revolution, 1917-1923 -- 4. Mediating the National and the International: Women, Journalism and Hungary in the Aftermath of the First World War -- 5. Women's Movements, War and the Body -- Further Reading.

Sommario/riassunto

"Women Activists between War and Peace employs a comparative approach in exploring women's political and social activism across the European continent in the years that followed the First World War. It brings together leading scholars in the field to discuss the contribution of women's movements in, and individual female activists from, Austria, Bulgaria, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Russia and the United States. The book contains an introduction that helpfully outlines key concepts and broader, European-wide issues and



concerns, such as peace, democracy and the role of the national and international in constructing the new, post-war political order. It then proceeds to examine the nature of women's activism through the prism of five pivotal topics: * Suffrage and nationalism; * Pacifism and internationalism; * Revolution and socialism; * Journalism and print media; * War and the body. A timeline and illustrations are also included in the book, along with a useful guide to further reading. This is a vitally important text for all students of women's history, twentieth-century Europe and the legacy of the First World War."--