Socialist Women and the Great War, 1914-21
by Professor Ingrid Sharp, Professor Matthew Stibbe, Corinne Painter
Socialist Women and the Great War: Protest, Revolution and Commemoration, an open access book, is the first transnational study of left-wing women and socialist revolution during the First World War and its aftermath. Through a discussion of the key themes related to women and revolution, such as anti-militarism and violence, democracy and citizenship, and experience and life-writing, this book sheds new and necessary light on the everyday lives of socialist women in the early 20th century.The participants of the 1918-1919 revolutions in Europe, and the accompanying outbreaks of social unrest elsewhere in the world, have typically been portrayed as war-weary soldiers and suited committee delegates—in other words, as men. Exceptions like Rosa Luxemburg exist, but ordinary women are often cast as passive recipients of the vote. This is not true; rather, women were pivotal actors in the making, imagining, and remembering of the social and political upheavals of this time. From wartime strikes, to revolutionary violence, to issues of suffrage, this book reveals how women constructed their own revolutionary selves in order to bring about lasting social change and provides a fresh comparative approach to women's socialist activism.As such, this is a vitally important resource for all postgraduates and advanced undergraduates interested in gender studies, international relations, and the history and legacy of World War I.The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollection.com. Open access was funded by Knowledge Unlatched.
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Author Biography
Corinne Painter is Lecturer in German and Intercultural Studies at University of Leeds, UK. She is the author of Writing Lives (2019).Ingrid Sharp is Professor of German Cultural and Gender History at the University of Leeds, UK. She is the editor of Women Activists between War and Peace (2017) and Aftermaths of War (2011), both co-edited with Matthew Stibbe, as well as The Women's Movement in Wartime (co-edited with Alison Fell, 2007).Matthew Stibbe is Professor of Modern European History at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. He is the author of several books, including Germany, 1914-1933: Politics, Society and Culture (2010), and the editor of several volumes of essays on 20th-century European themes, including Women Activists between War and Peace (2017) and Aftermaths of War (2011), both co-edited with Ingrid Sharp.
Table of Contents
List of IllustrationsGlossary and List of AbbreviationsNotes on Contributors1. Socialist Women and the Great War, 1914-1921: Protest, Revolution and Commemoration, Matthew Stibbe (Sheffield Hallam University, UK), Ingrid Sharp (University of Leeds, UK), Clotilde Faas (University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland), Veronika Helfert (Central European University, Austria/Hungary), Mary McAuliffe (University College Dublin, Ireland), and Corinne Painter (University of Leeds, UK)2. Socialist Women and 'Urban Space': Protest, Strikes and Anti-Militarism, 1914-1918, Matthew Stibbe (Sheffield Hallam University, UK), Katharina Hermann (University of Bern, Switzerland), Anna Hammerin (Independent Scholar, Sweden/UK) and Ali Ronan (Independent Scholar, UK)3. Socialist Women and Revolutionary Violence, 1918-1921, Veronika Helfert (Central European University, Austria/Hungary), Clotilde Faas (University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland), Tiina Lintunen (University of Turku, Finland) and Mary McAuliffe (University College Dublin, Ireland)4. Suffrage, Democracy and Citizenship, Ingrid Sharp (University of Leeds, UK), Manca G. Renko (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia), Ali Ronan (Independent Scholar, UK) and Judith Szapor (McGill University, Canada)5. Life Trajectories: Making Revolution and Breaking Boundaries, Corinne Painter (University of Leeds, UK), Veronika Helfert (Central European University, Austria/Hungary), Manca G. Renko (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia), and Judith Szapor (McGill University, Canada)6. Commemorating Revolution, Commemorating Women, Mary McAuliffe (University College Dublin, Ireland), Clotilde Faas (University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland), Tiina Lintunen (University of Turku, Finland), Ali Ronan (Independent Scholar, UK) and Ingrid Sharp (University of Leeds, UK)BibliographyIndex
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This collection fills significant gaps in our understanding of the ways in which European socialism and revolution developed during and after World War I, adding the important roles played by women as well as gendered analysis of not only their actions but of the larger movements with which they were associated. A welcome contribution! * Laurie Stoff, Principal Lecturer and Honors Faculty Fellow, Arizona State University, USA *
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An international cast of leading academics explore the role played by women socialists' anti-war protests in political and social revolutionary upheavals from 1914 to 1921.
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"This collection fills significant gaps in our understanding of the ways in which European socialism and revolution developed during and after World War I, adding the important roles played by women as well as gendered analysis of not only their actions but of the larger movements with which they were associated. A welcome contribution!" -- Laurie Stoff, Principal Lecturer and Honors Faculty Fellow, Arizona State University, USA
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An international cast of leading academics explore the role played by women socialists' anti-war protests in political and social revolutionary upheavals from 1914 to 1921.
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First transnational study of women and revolution during the First World War and its aftermath
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