Introduction: Women’s and Gender History of the First World War — Topics, Concepts, Perspectives

Hämmerle, Christa; Überegger, Oswald; Zaar, Birgitta Bader

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“…En los momentos finales de la guerra, las mujeres de Alemania (Hämmerle et al, 2014), aproximadamente quinientas, también tomaron parte en el servicio de telecomunicaciones, en sustitución de los especialistas, que se necesitaban ahora en el frente. En el caso de Alemania, hubo mujeres que, como Clara Zetkin, expresaron, incluso alejadas formalmente del campo de batalla, su implicación en los asuntos públicos, y salieron a la calle para hacer política activa durante la guerra (Elshtain y Tobias, 1990: 150).…”

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Batallar fuera de casa: mujeres de uniforme en la Primera Guerra Mundial. Battling out of the Home Front: Women in Uniform During World War One

Santos¹

2016

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En el otoño de 1914 las mujeres de los países occidentales dieron el paso de afrontar la guerra y tomar parte activa en ella. Lo hicieron a la manera diversa en que los seres humanos afrontan los problemas: en la difícil cotidianidad del que aguarda el regreso de los soldados, soportando todo el esfuerzo del sostenimiento familiar, o colaborando en los trabajos de producción para la vida civil y militar. Pero no pocas empujaron a los gobiernos para que les permitieran luchar dentro de los ejércitos, llevando los uniformes militares y mostrando los colores de la patria. Estas líneas están dedicadas a conformar su historia.Palabras clave: Primera Guerra Mundial, mujeres, ejércitos.AbstractIn the fall of 1914 western women began their way to cope with war taking an active part in it. They did it in the various ways human beings usually face problems: awaiting the return of the soldiers in the everyday difficulties, supporting all the works of family´s needs, or helping in the country production work for the civil and military life. But also, not few women pushed governments to allow them fighting in armies, wearing military uniforms and showing the colors of their country. This text shows their history.Keywords: First World War, women, armies.

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Batallar fuera de casa: mujeres de uniforme en la Primera Guerra Mundial. Battling out of the Home Front: Women in Uniform During World War One

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2016

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Furies, Spies and Fallen Women: Gender in German Public Discourse About Belgium, 1914–1918

Bischoff

2018

The Great War in Belgium and the Netherlands

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The ‘recruiting muddle’: married men, conscription and masculinity in First World War England*

Ugolini

2018

First World War Studies

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Interviewed many decades after the end of the First World War, Mary Morton recalled vividly how her mother's family had made no secret of their contempt for her father's conduct during the conflict: he was-they thought-a 'bounder'. Tellingly, they condemned not his continued civilian status, but the fact that he had volunteered, despite his responsibilities as husband and father. Historians have long recognised the powerful pull of military masculinities during the First World War, as well as the denigration of civilian men and masculinities: this article suggests that the wartime experiences of married men like Mary Morton's father complicate this picture of hegemonic and subordinate masculinities. They, it was widely agreed in the early years of the conflict, had responsibilities that tied them to the home front; it was unmarried men's duty to 'go first'. In May 1916, however, the pressing need for military manpower led to the introduction of conscription for all men, without reference to marital status. This article explores the underlying shift in understandings of manly conduct in wartime, from a belief that married men had responsibilities that kept them from enlisting, to a new emphasis on the equality of duty among all physically fit men of military age, irrespective of domestic responsibilities.

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Introduction: Women’s and Gender History of the First World War — Topics, Concepts, Perspectives

Cited by 3 publications

References 10 publications

Batallar fuera de casa: mujeres de uniforme en la Primera Guerra Mundial. Battling out of the Home Front: Women in Uniform During World War One

Batallar fuera de casa: mujeres de uniforme en la Primera Guerra Mundial. Battling out of the Home Front: Women in Uniform During World War One

Furies, Spies and Fallen Women: Gender in German Public Discourse About Belgium, 1914–1918

The ‘recruiting muddle’: married men, conscription and masculinity in First World War England*

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