Aftermaths of War: Women’s Movements and Female Activists, 1918-1923 (History of Warfare)

Introduction : Women's Movements And Female Activists In The Aftermath Of War : International Perspectives 1918-1923 / Ingrid Sharp And Matthew Stibbe -- The Aftermaths Of Defeat : The Fallen, The Catastrophe, And The Public Response Of Women To The End Of The First World War In Bulgaria / Nikolai Vukov -- The Women's Suffrage Campaign In Italy In 1919 And Voce Nuova (new Voice) : Corporatism, Nationalism And The Struggle For Political Rights / Emma Schiavon -- Raps Across The Knuckles : The Extension Of War Culture By Radical Nationalist Women Journalists In Post-1918 Germany / Christiane Streubel -- The Rhineland Horror Campaign And The Aftermath Of War / Erika Kuhlman -- From Free Love To Married Love : Gender Politics, Marie Stopes, And Middlebrow Fiction By Women In The Early Nineteen Twenties / Ann Rea -- The Disappearing Surplus : The Spinster In The Post-war Debate In Weimar Germany, 1918-1920 / Ingrid Sharp --^ After The Vote Was Won. The Fate Of The Women's Suffrage Movement In Russia After The October Revolution : Individuals, Ideas And Deeds / Olga Shnyrova -- Women Activists In Albania Following Independence And World War I / Fatmira Musaj And Beryl Nicholson -- A Bitter-sweet Victory : Feminism In France (1918-1923) / Christine Bard -- Sisters And Comrades. Women's Movements And The Austrian Revolution : Gender In Insurrection, The Räte Movement, Parties And Parliament / Gabriella Hauch -- Who Represents Hungarian Women? The Demise Of The Liberal Bourgeois Women's Rights Movement In The Aftermath Of World War I / Judith Szapor -- Soldiers, Members Of Parliament, Social Activists : The Polish Women's Movement After World War I / Sylwia Kuźma-markowska -- Political And Public Aspects Of The Activity Of The Lithuanian Women's Movement, 1918-1923 / Virginija Jurėnienė --^ Diverse Constructions : Feminist And Conservative Women's Movements And Their Contribution To The (re- )construction Of Gender Relations In Hungary After The First World War / Judit Acsády -- Elsa Brändström And The Reintegration Of Returning Prisoners Of War And Their Families In Post-war Germany And Austria / Matthew Stibbe -- We Stand On The Threshold Of A New Age : Alice Masaryková, The Czechoslovak Red Cross, And The Building Of A New Europe / David Hudson -- Britain In The Balkans : The Response Of The Scottish Women's Hospital Units / Jill Liddington. Edited By Ingrid Sharp, Matthew Stibbe. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Title page ......Page 4 Contents ......Page 6 List of Abbreviations ......Page 12 List of Illustrations ......Page 16 Introduction: Women's movements and female activists in the aftermath of war: International perspectives 1918-1923......Page 24 Part One: Commemoration, remembering, r emobilisation......Page 50 Part Two: The renegotiation of gender roles......Page 134 Part Three: Women's suffrage and political rights ......Page 220 Part Four: Reconstruction communities/visions of peace ......Page 330 Index ......Page 442 This volume of essays provides the first major comparative study of the role played by women’s movements and individual female activists in enabling or thwarting the transition from war to peace in Europe in the crucial years 1918 to 1923.