Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Dynastic legitimacy and women's philanthropy in German state and nation building
  • The Landesmutter and philanthropic practices in the new German dynastic states, 1813-1848
  • The politics of philanthropy under dynastic patronage, 1848 to 1870-71
  • Civic voluntarism and gift giving in the "caring" state
  • Cultural performances in the struggle over national community after 1871
  • Gendered medical war services in the "curing" state
  • Mobilizing social memory : gendered images of war and sacrifice
  • Testing patriotic alliances, 1913-1916
  • Conclusion : a gendered reading of patriotism and power.