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Women activists between war and peace : Europe, 1918-1923 /
Women Activists Between War and Peace" employs a transnational approach in exploring women's activism across the European continent in the years that followed the First World War. It brings together leading scholars in the field from the UK, the USA, Canada and Bulgaria to discuss aspects...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York, NY :
Bloomsbury Academic,
2017.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Title Page; Copyright Page; 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 warReturn 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 WarThe 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 BritainModern 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; Index.