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Women Activists Between War and Peace : Europe, 1918-1923.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (287 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781472578792
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Women Activists Between War and PeaceDDC classification:
  • 320.082094
LOC classification:
  • HQ1587.W664 2017
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- 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 war -- Return 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 War.
The 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 Britain -- Modern 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.
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Intro -- 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 war -- Return 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 War.

The 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 Britain -- Modern 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.

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