| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Introduction / Bruna Bianchi and Geraldine Ludbrook -- Women in Popular Demonstrations against the War in Italy / Giovanna Procacci -- Inside the Storm: The Experiences of Women during the Austro-German Occupation of Veneto 1917-1918 / Matteo Ermacora -- "Their Wounds Gape at me": First World War Nursing Accounts and the Politics of Injury / Carol Acton -- "That massacre of the innocents has haunted us for years": Women Witnesses of Hunger in Central Europe / Bruna Bianchi -- The Lady and the Soldier: Virginia Woolf and the Great War / Marisa Sestito -- "Fighting for Peace amid Paralyzed Popular Opinion": Bertha von Suttner's and Rosa Mayreder&#x;s Pacifist-Feminist Insights on Gender, War and Peace / Laurie R. Cohen -- Living Peace, Thinking Equality: Rosika Schwimmer's (1877-1948) War on War / Dagmar Wernitznig -- "Pacifist Revolutionary": Crystal Eastman, the Dilemmas of Intersectionalism, and the Struggle for World Peace / Amy Beth Aronson -- Economics and Peace: Yella Hertzka (1873-1948) / Corinna Oesch -- "Do Women Want War or Peace?": Female Peace Activists in First World War Austria / Brigitte Rath -- War, Peace, and Suffrage: The First Italian Section of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom / Maria Grazia Suriano -- "War as the Beginning of a New Era": Polish Feminists' Thoughts and Reflections on Peace and their Visions about the Post-War Era (1914-1921) / Angelique Leszczawski-Schwerk -- Helping the German Children: French Humanitarian Aid and Franco-German Reconciliation after the Great War (1919-1925) / Marie-Michèle Doucet -- Peace Without Freedom is Not an Option: Race and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, 1914-1945 / Joyce Blackwell-Johnson |
| Summary |
This volume is the result of a long commitment of the online journal DEP: Deportate, esuli, profughe to the themes of women pacifists' thought and activism in the 1900s. The volume is a collection of contributions centred around three main themes. The first part, "Living War: Women's Experiences during the War", brings together first-hand accounts from women's lives as they face the horrors of war, drawn mainly from original sources such as diaries, letters, memoirs and writings. The second, "Thinking Peace: Feminist Thought and Activism", explores the lives and thought of several key women ac |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Women
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Women pacifists -- History -- 20th century
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Women and war.
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20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000.
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History: specific events & topics.
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First World War.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
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Women
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Women and war
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Women pacifists
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Pazifismus
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Friedensbewegung
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Frau
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Feminismus
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Bianchi, Bruna.
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Ludbrook, Geraldine.
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| ISBN |
9781443892476 |
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1443892475 |
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