Borderlines: Genders and Identities in War and Peace 1870-1930 / Edition 1

by Billie Melman

Overview

Borderlines weaves together the study of gender with that of the evolution of nationalism and colonialism. Its broad, comparative perspective will rechart the war experiences and identities of women and men during this period of transformation from peace to war, and again to peace.

Drawing on a wide range of materials, from government policy and propaganda to subversive trench journalism and performance, from fiction, drama and film to the record of activists in various movements and in various countries, Borderlines weaves together the study of gender with that of the evolution of nationalism and colonialism. Its broad, comparative perspective will rechart the war experiences and identities of women and men during this period of transformation from peace to war, and again to peace.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415911139
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/30/1998
Pages:	472
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Billie Melman is Associate Professor of History at Tel-Aviv University and the author of Women's Orient's and Women and the Popular Imagination in the Twenties.

Table of Contents

Introduction Part I Gendering the Nation: Definitions and Boundaries: The British Imperial State and the Construction of National Identities; From Empire to Nation: Images of Women and War in Ottoman Political Cartoons, 1908-1923; Men and Soldiers: British Conscripts, Concepts of Masculinity, and the Great War; Family, Masculinity, and Heroism in Russian War Posters of the First World War; Re-Generation: Nation and the Construction of Gender in Peace and War-Palestine Jews, 1900-1918; Taking Risks for Pictures: The Heroics of Cinematic Realism in World War I; Part II Borderlands: Identities and Sexualities; Fin-de-Sieck Theatrics: Male Impersonation and Lesbian Desire; Lesbians before Lesbianism: Sexual Identity in Early Twentieth-Century British Fiction Spectacles and Sexualities: The Mise-en-Scene of the Tirailleur Senegalais on the Western Front, 1914-1920; Objects to Possess and Discard: The Representation of Jews and Women by British Women Novelists of the 1920s; Part III Dissent and Acquiescence: War, Feminism, and Female Action; Challenging Traditions: Denominational Feminism in Britain, 1910-1920; Religion, Emancipation, and Politics in the Confessional Women's Movement in Germany, 1900-1933; Ideological Crossroads: Feminism, Pacifism, and Socialism; The Politics of Female Notables in Postwar Egypt; Part IV Moving Boundaries: Work, Gender, and Mobilization; Public Functions, Private Premises: Female Professional Identity and the Domestic-Service Paradigm in Britain, c. 1850-1930; Emily Goes to War: Explaining the Recruitment to the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps in World War I; Work, Gender, and Identity in Peace and War: France 1890-1930; Class, Ethnicity, and Gender in Post-Ottoman Thessaloniki: The Great Tobacco Strike of 1914

Editorial Reviews

Contributors address the relationship between gender, nationalism, and colonialism in the First World War. Locating the war in the broader context of 1870-1930, they explore how the borders of feminine and masculine identities were formed, contested and reformed in relation to women's and men's lived experience of global modern war, revolution, and the rise of new nationalisms. Drawing from a wide variety of material<-->including the theater and subversive trench journalism<-->the essays demonstrate how shifts in gender relations and identities were tied to the evolving integral and cultural nationalisms. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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