Research Catalog

Title

Living war, thinking peace (1914-1924) : women's experiences, feminist thought, and international relations / edited by Bruna Bianchi and Geraldine Ludbrook.

Publication

Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Bianchi, Bruna
• Ludbrook, Geraldine

Description

xii, 276 pages; 22 cm.

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 activists who challenged inequalities and sought to create new opportunities for women, contributing to the definition of a transnational culture of peace. The final section, "International Relations: Toward Future World Peace", examines the work of a group of women who saw the outbreak of the First World War and the emergence of an international women’s movement for peace as an opportunity to act for their personal emancipation, and, in some cases, for a different idea of politics. The volume fills a notable gap in international history studies, providing a selection of contributions from little-known European contexts such as Italy, Poland, and Austria. The presence and contribution of African-American women, which has been neglected in the history of women's pacifism, is also explored. Particular attention is given to the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and to the International Congress of Women, held in The Hague in 1915."--Publisher's website.

Subject

• Women pacifists > History > 20th century
• Women and war

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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’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.

ISBN

• 9781443886840
• 144388684X

OCLC

• 936347955
• SCSB-11705339

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library