Gender and the First World War - by Kenneth A Loparo & O Überegger & B Bader-Zaar (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

The First World War cannot be sufficiently documented and understood without considering the analytical category of gender. This exciting volume examines key issues in this area, including the 'home front' and battlefront, violence, pacifism, citizenship - and emphasizes the relevance of gender within the expanding field of First World War Studies. By addressing such a broad range of topics through case studies and chapters on British and French heroines, Austro-Hungarian war nurses, gendered representations of bereavement and modern war technology, this volume provides a transnational and comparative approach to the subject, integrating research on Western and Central Europe with that on marginalized regions in Italy, Austria-Hungary, Slovenia, and Lithuania.

Review Quotes

"Gender and the First World War is highly recommended for those interested in Central and Eastern-European testimonies of war as the previously mentioned sources can serve as a basis either for socio-cultural or literary analysis. The volume may also be useful for those engaged in gender studies as the experience of the First World War is unquestionably the cradle of our modern view and interpretation of different gender roles and norms." (Eszter Edit Balogh, Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies, Vol. 23 (1), 2017)

About the Author

Tina Bahovec, University of Klagenfurt, Austria Bruna Bianchi, University Ca' Foscari Venice, Italy Jason Crouthamel, Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Michigan, USA Matteo Ermacora is an independent scholar Alison S. Fell, University of Leeds, UK Susan R. Grayzel, University of Mississippi, USA Virginija Jur?nien?, Vilnius University, Lithuania Julia Köhne, University of Vienna, Austria Manon Pignot University of Picardie, France Ingrid E. Sharp, University of Leeds, UK Claudia Siebrecht, University of Sussex, UK Dorothee Wierling, University of Hamburg, Germany