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Gender and conflict since 1914 : historical and interdisciplinary perspectives /

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 rel...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Carden-Coyne, Ana
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Series:Gender and history (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
Subjects:
Women and war > History > 20th century.
Women and the military > History > 20th century.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Gender and conflict since 1914: historical and interdisciplinary perspectives / Ana Carden-Coyne
  • Gendered experiences of civilian internment during the First World War: a forgotten dimension of wartime violence / Matthew Stibbe
  • Defending the home(land): gendering civil defense from the First World War to the 'War on Terror' / Lucy Noakes and Susan R. Grayzel
  • Men refusing to be violent: manliness and military conscientious objection, 1914 to the present day / Lois S. Bibbings
  • Trespassing on the 'trench-fighter's story': (re)-imagining the female combatant of the First World War / Libby Murphy
  • Courage, conflict and activism: transnational feminist peace movements, 1900 to the present day / Laurie R. Cohen
  • Gendering the politics of war wounds since 1914 / Ana Carden-Coyne
  • The not dead: war disability in film and literature from the First World War to the present / Jessica Meyer
  • Emotional women and frail men: gendered diagnostics from shellshock to PTSD, 1914-2010 / Hazel Croft
  • Masculinities, ethnicities and the Terrorist in Cyprus (1950-1959) and the War on Terror (2001-) / Gabriel Koureas
  • Where the boys are: militarization, sexuality and Red Cross donut dollies in the Vietnam War / Kara Dixon Vuic
  • 'I was one of the better interrogators': gender performativity, identity transformation and the female military intelligence officer in the Iraq War / Phoebe C. Godfrey
  • Afterword / Cynthia Enloe.