Introduction: The Women’s Movement and the First World War

Fell, Alison S.; Sharp, Ingrid

doi:10.1057/9780230210790_1

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“…The best expression of the pacifist feminist position came with the 1915 International Women's Peace Congress held in The Hague in the midst of the war, which had about twelve hundred delegates present. 20 The NUWSS barred members from attending, leading several prominent women to resign. 21 Many female Friends expressed sympathy with internationalist, pacifist women, and they encouraged such a vision for the postwar society.…”

Section: Friends' War Workmentioning

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Repairing the Spirit: The Society of Friends, Total War, and the Limits of Reconciliation

Proctor¹

2020

Peace & Change

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This article investigates specific Quaker war relief and reconciliation projects among prisoners of war during and after World War I in Europe. The Friends’ efforts emphasized the individual face and experience of suffering—of seeing the victims as human—and provided a powerful model for reconciliation in the wake of devastating violence. Their deeply radical notion of having war victims helps war victims in order to reconcile enemies became central to the Friends’ relief projects and their lived values as pacifists. This approach could not easily be scaled up to meet the societal/structural/institutional power changes required after the war, especially as more workers joined the effort, sometimes from quite different backgrounds than the original Quaker volunteers. Through a sometimes painful process of small successes and failures, the Friends moved away from their early vision of reconciliation work toward cooperation with large‐scale professionalized postwar food aid programs, thereby ensuring their future viability in relief work.

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Section: Friends' War Workmentioning

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Repairing the Spirit: The Society of Friends, Total War, and the Limits of Reconciliation

Proctor¹

2020

Peace & Change

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The struggle of Polish feminist organisations to obtain the vote for women across the spectrum of Central Europe

Sikorska,

Sylburska

2023

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The article presents the history of Polish feminist movements against the background of similar organizations in Bohemia and Hungary in 19th and 20th century. It describes their founders and members, cooperation between them and methods of activity leading to obtaining voting rights for women. Depicting similarities and differences between them, the article explains the complexity of factors creating the feminist movement in Central Europe. Their main goal was achieved only after the First World War. The authors mainly use texts by Polish feminists and literature in Polish, English, Czech and Hungarian. They used the comparative method during analysing the sources.

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Introduction: The Women’s Movement and the First World War

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Repairing the Spirit: The Society of Friends, Total War, and the Limits of Reconciliation

Repairing the Spirit: The Society of Friends, Total War, and the Limits of Reconciliation

The struggle of Polish feminist organisations to obtain the vote for women across the spectrum of Central Europe

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