Gender and Conflict since 1914: Historical and Interdisciplinary Perspectives (Gender and History, 7)

The First World War was a turning point for modern globalised warfare. It involved the inclusion of women in 'war efforts', the homefront becoming the warzone, and produced millions of wounded and disabled men. At the same time, it incited an extraordinary arsenal of gendered discourses, practices and beliefs in the service of militarism, power structures and personal agency. This insightful collection of interdisciplinary essays, by a wide-ranging team of experts, draws out critical themes emanating from 1914. Spanning the First and Second World Wars, through to the Vietnam War, the 'War on Terror' and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the volume asks what has changed and what has continued? Ana Carden-Coyne demonstrates adeptly how understanding gender during periods of conflict has ongoing relevance across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Covering a range of wars and armed struggles, the authors describe what has changed, what has continued, and how does understanding gender in times of conflict have ongoing relevance across the 20th and 21st centuries. Contains: Gendered Experiences of Civilian Internment During the First World War: A Forgotten Dimension of Wartime Violence; Defending the Home(land): Gendering Civil Defense from the First World War to the 'War on Terror'; Men Refusing to Be Violent: Manliness and Military Conscientious Objection, 1914 to the Present Day; Tresspassing on the "Trench-Fighter's Story": (Re)-Imagining the Female Combatant of the First World War; Courage, Conflict and Activism: Transnational Feminist Peace Movements, 1900 to the Present Day ; Gendering the Politics of War Wounds Since 1914; The Not Dead: War Disability in Film and Literature from the First World War to the Present ; Emotional Women and Frail Men: Gendered Diagnostics From Shellshock to PTSD, 1914-2010 ; Masculinities, Ethnicities and the Terrorist in Cyprus (1950-9) and the 'War on Terror', (2001- ) ; Where the Boys are: Militarization, Sexuality and Red Cross Donut Dollies in the Vietnam War ; "I was one of the better interrogators": Gender Performativity, Identity Transformation and the Female Military Intelligence Officer in the Iraq War "This timely edited collection brings together a team of scholars to consider the theme of gender and conflict since World War I. Covering a range of wars and armed struggles, the volume asks what has changed, what has continued, and how does understanding gender in times of conflict have ongoing relevance across the 20th and 21st centuries?"--Publisher's website An interdisciplinary collection of essays that offers fresh perspectives on gendered discourses and practices in periods of conflict, from the First World War through to the 'War on Terror'