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Making Peace

The Reconstruction of Gender in Interwar Britain

By: Susan Kingsley Kent

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Making Peace

The Reconstruction of Gender in Interwar Britain

By: Susan Kingsley Kent

Making Peace provides a fresh context for understanding gender relations in interwar Britain, seeing in the emergence of a powerful ideology of motherhood and a reemphasis on separate spheres for men and women a corollary to the political and economic restructuring designed to reestablish social order after World War I. The war had often been explained and justified to the British public by means of images that portrayed women as hostile or frightening—or as victims of sexual assault, as in the Belgian atrocity stories. These sexualized interpretations of war then shaped postwar understandings of gender, as psychiatrists, psychologists, and sexologists drew on metaphors of war to talk about relationships between men and women, likening any conflict between the sexes to the terrible chaos of the war years. Drawing on materials from posters to popular songs, from government reports to journalistic accounts, from memoirs and novels to diaries and letters, Making Peace is a penetrating analysis of how gendered and sexualized depictions of wartime expereinces compelled many Britons to seek in traditional gender arrangements the key to postwar order and security. In the interwar period, many feminists compromised their earlier positions in an effort to contribute to postwar recovery, and justified their demands—for birth control and family endowment, for example—in conservative terms that ultimately hampered their movement. Susan Kingsley Kent is Associate Professor of History at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She is also the author of Sex and Suffrage in Britain, 1860-1914 (Princeton). Originally published in 1993. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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0691656797

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No Man's Land

The Place of the Woman Writer in the Twentieth Century

By: Sandra M. Gilbert,Susan Gubar

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No Man's Land

The Place of the Woman Writer in the Twentieth Century

By: Sandra M. Gilbert,Susan Gubar

V.1 the war of the words. V.2 sexchanges.

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Yale University Press

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0300050259

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Women's Identities at War

Gender, Motherhood, and Politics in Britain and France during the First World War

By: Susan R. Grayzel

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Women's Identities at War

Gender, Motherhood, and Politics in Britain and France during the First World War

By: Susan R. Grayzel

There are few moments in history when the division between the sexes seems as "natural" as during wartime: men go off to the "war front," while women stay behind on the "home front." But the very notion of the home front was an invention of the First World War, when, for the first time, "home" and "domestic" became adjectives that modified the military term "front." Such an innovation acknowledged the significant and presumably new contributions of civilians, especially women, to the war effort. Yet, as Susan Grayzel argues, throughout the war, traditional notions of masculinity and femininity survived, primarily through the maintenance of--and indeed reemphasis on--soldiering and mothering as the core of gender and national identities. Drawing on sources that range from popular fiction and war memorials to newspapers and legislative debates, Grayzel analyzes the effects of World War I on ideas about civic participation, national service, morality, sexuality, and identity in wartime Britain and France. Despite the appearance of enormous challenges to gender roles due to the upheavals of war, the forces of stability prevailed, she says, demonstrating the Western European gender system's remarkable resilience.

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1469620812

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At Home and under Fire

Air Raids and Culture in Britain from the Great War to the Blitz

By: Susan R. Grayzel

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At Home and under Fire

Air Raids and Culture in Britain from the Great War to the Blitz

By: Susan R. Grayzel

Although the Blitz has come to symbolize the experience of civilians under attack, Germany first launched air raids on Britain at the end of 1914 and continued them during the First World War. With the advent of air warfare, civilians far removed from traditional battle zones became a direct target of war rather than a group shielded from its impact. This is a study of how British civilians experienced and came to terms with aerial warfare during the First and Second World Wars. Memories of the World War I bombings shaped British responses to the various real and imagined war threats of the 1920s and 1930s, including the bombing of civilians during the Spanish Civil War and, ultimately, the Blitz itself. The processes by which different constituent bodies of the British nation responded to the arrival of air power reveal the particular role that gender played in defining civilian participation in modern war.

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Cambridge University Press

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Aftershocks

Politics and Trauma in Britain, 1918-1931

By: Susan Kingsley Kent

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Aftershocks

Politics and Trauma in Britain, 1918-1931

By: Susan Kingsley Kent

Aftershocks studies how meanings of shellshock and imagery presenting the traumatized psyche as shattered contributed to Britons' understandings of their political selves in the 1920s. It connects the force of emotions to the political culture of a decade which saw extraordinary violence against those regarded as 'un-English'.

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0230582001

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Women and the First World War

By: Susan R. Grayzel

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Women and the First World War

By: Susan R. Grayzel

The First World War was the first modern, total war, one requiring the mobilisation of both civilians and combatants. Particularly in Europe, the main theatre of the conflict, this war demanded the active participation of both men and women. Women and the First World War provides an introduction to the experiences and contributions of women during this important turning point in history. In addition to exploring women’s relationship to the war in each of the main protagonist states, the book also looks at the wide-ranging effects of the war on women in Africa Asia, Australia, New Zealand, and North America. Topical in its approach, the book highlights: the heated public debates about women’s social, cultural and political roles that the war inspired their varied experiences of war women’s representation in propaganda their roles in peace movements and revolutionary activity that grew out of the war the consequences of the war for women in its immediate aftermath Containing a document section providing a wide range of sources from first-hand accounts, a Chronology and Glossary, Women and the First World War is an ideal text for students studying the First World War or the role of women in the twentieth century.

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Routledge

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1317875788

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The Children in Room E4

American Education on Trial

By: Susan Eaton

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The Children in Room E4

American Education on Trial

By: Susan Eaton

Explores the racial and economic divide found in the educational systems of urban areas across the United States, in an account that follows the struggles of one bright third-grader from Hartford, Connecticut, and his indomitable teacher. Reprint.

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Algonquin Books

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1565126173

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Family, Dependence, and the Origins of the Welfare State

Britain and France, 1914-1945

By: Susan Pedersen

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Family, Dependence, and the Origins of the Welfare State

Britain and France, 1914-1945

By: Susan Pedersen

A comparative analysis of social policies in Britain and France between 1914 and 1945.

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0521558344

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Gender and History

By: Susan Kingsley Kent

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Gender and History

By: Susan Kingsley Kent

What is gender and who has it? History, theory and gender are inextricably linked, but how exactly do they fit together? How do historians use theories about gender to write history? In this jargon-free introduction, Susan Kingsley Kent presents a student-friendly guide to the origins, conceptual framework, subjectmatter and methods of gender history. Assuming no prior knowledge, Gender and History: - Sets out clear definitions of theory, history and gender - Explains that gender is not solely applicable to women, but to men as well - Tackles the hotly debated topic of power and gender relations - Explores gender history from a variety of angles, including anthropology, psychology and philosophy - Spans a broad chronological period, from the times of Aristotle to the present day - Includes a helpful glossary that explains key terms and concepts at a glance Lively and approachable, this is an essential text for anyone who wishes to learn how to use theories of gender in their historical studies.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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023035727X

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Eleanor Rathbone and the Politics of Conscience

By: Susan Pedersen

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Eleanor Rathbone and the Politics of Conscience

By: Susan Pedersen

When British women demanded the vote in the years before the First World War, they promised to use political rights to remake their country and their world. This is the story of Eleanor Rathbone, the woman who best fulfilled that pledge. Rathbone cut her political teeth in the suffrage movement in Liverpool, spent two decades crafting social reforms for poor women and children, and was for seventeen years their advocate in the House of Commons. She also played a critical role in imperial policymaking and in the opposition to appeasement. In the last decade of her life she sought to rescue Spanish republicans and Jews threatened by Hitler's rise to power. In this important book, Susan Pedersen illuminates both the public and private sides of Rathbone's life while restoring her to her rightful place as the most sophisticated feminist thinker and most effective British woman politician of the first half of the twentieth century.

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Yale University Press

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0300102453

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The Doughboys Over There

Soldiering in World War I

By: Susan Provost Beller

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The Doughboys Over There

Soldiering in World War I

By: Susan Provost Beller

Shares the experiences of the Doughboys fighting in World War I in Europe.

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Twenty-First Century Books

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0822562952

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Carolyn G. Heilbrun, Feminist in a Tenured Position

By: Susan Kress

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Carolyn G. Heilbrun, Feminist in a Tenured Position

By: Susan Kress

Preeminent feminist critic Carolyn G. Heilbrun's life experience echoes that of a generation of professional women, often isolated and marginalized within inhospitable institutions. Incorporating interviews with friends, colleagues, and Heilbrun herself, author Susan Kress illuminates Heilbrun's various public identities and places her in the context of the developing women's movement.

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University of Virginia Press

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0813917514

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Gender and Power in Britain 1640-1990

By: Susan Kingsley Kent

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Gender and Power in Britain 1640-1990

By: Susan Kingsley Kent

Gender and Power in Britain is an original and exciting history of Britain from the early modern period to the present focusing on the interaction of gender and power in political, social, cultural and economic life. Using a chronological framework, the book examines: * the roles, responsibilities and identities of men and women * how power relationships were established within various gender systems * how women and men reacted to the institutions, laws, customs, beliefs and practices that constituted their various worlds * class, racial and ethnic considerations * the role of empire in the development of British institutions and identities * the civil war * twentieth century suffrage * the world wars * industrialisation * Victorian morality.

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Routledge

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1134755120

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So Obstinately Loyal

James Moody, 1744-1809

By: Susan Burgess Shenstone

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So Obstinately Loyal

James Moody, 1744-1809

By: Susan Burgess Shenstone

The biography of James Moody, a once-famous, even infamous, partisan of Britain during the American Revolutionary War.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773524169

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9780773524163

American Legal English, 2nd Edition

Using Language in Legal Contexts

By: Debra S. Lee,Charles Hall,Susan M. Barone

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American Legal English, 2nd Edition

Using Language in Legal Contexts

By: Debra S. Lee,Charles Hall,Susan M. Barone

Students can becomve familiar with legal syntax and legal vocabulary in this introduction to basic legal information and the U.S. legal system.

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University of Michigan Press

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0472032062

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Justice, Gender, and Affirmative Action

By: Susan D. Clayton,Faye J. Crosby

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Justice, Gender, and Affirmative Action

By: Susan D. Clayton,Faye J. Crosby

CHAPTER 3 Relative Deprivation

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The World Encyclopedia of Serial Killers: Volume One, A–D

By: Susan Hall

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The World Encyclopedia of Serial Killers: Volume One, A–D

By: Susan Hall

The first volume featuring the most infamous killers throughout history—from Afghanistan’s Abdullah Shah to Kazakh cannibal Nikolai Dzhumagaliev. The World Encyclopedia of Serial Killers is the most comprehensive set of its kind in the history of true crime publishing. Written and compiled by Susan Hall, the four-volume set has more than 1600 entries of male and female serial killers from around the world. Defined by the FBI as a person who murders three or more people over a period of time with a hiatus of weeks or months between murders, serial killers have walked among us from the dawn of time as these books will demonstrate. While the entries to these volumes will continue to grow—the FBI estimates that there are at least fifty serial killers operating in the United States at any given time—The World Encyclopedia of Serial Killers is as complete as possible through the end of 2017. The set begins with Volume One, Letters A–D. The entries include Ted Bundy, the Candyman Dean Corll, Angel of Death killer Donald Harvey, the ABC Killer, and the Bodies in the Barrels Murders. You will find these killers and approximately five-hundred others in this first book in the series of The World Encyclopedia of Serial Killers.

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WildBlue Press

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1952225035

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Sex and Suffrage in Britain, 1860-1914

By: Susan Kingsley Kent

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Sex and Suffrage in Britain, 1860-1914

By: Susan Kingsley Kent

Although other historians have viewed the suffrage movement as aimed at exclusively political ends, she argues that such a categorization ignores many of the most compelling reasons why thousands of middle and upper-class women risked ostracism, obloquy, and, often, physical harm in the pursuit of the right to vote and why their efforts met with such intense opposition. The alliance of respectable" middle-class women with prostitutes, the attack on marriage, and the suffragists' distrust of the medical profession are among the topics the author addresses. Drawing on hypotheses advanced by Michel Foucault, she asserts that feminists sought no less than the total transformation of the lives of women. Originally published in 1987. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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1400858631

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The Scouts

By: Susan Cohen

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The Scouts

By: Susan Cohen

Scouts have been part of the fabric of British society since the Movement's founding by Lieutenant-General Robert Baden-Powell in 1907, and Scout training continues to provide young people with 'instruction in good citizenship' to this day. Beginning with an outline of Baden-Powell's life and influences, Susan Cohen here tells the story of the Scout Movement and its growth from an experimental camp held on Brownsea Island, Dorset, attended by a handful of boys, into a multi-cultural, multi-national movement involving (in 2011) some 400,000 young people (including 60,000 girls) in the UK and millions of others across the world.

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0747812667

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Dangerous Ambition

Dorothy Thompson and Rebecca West : New Women in Search of Love and Power

By: Susan Hertog

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Dangerous Ambition

Dorothy Thompson and Rebecca West : New Women in Search of Love and Power

By: Susan Hertog

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Random House Digital, Inc.

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0345459865

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Gender and the Great War

By: Susan R. Grayzel,Tammy M. Proctor

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Gender and the Great War

By: Susan R. Grayzel,Tammy M. Proctor

The centenary of the First World War in 2014-18 offers an opportunity to reflect upon the role of gender history in shaping our understanding of this pivotal international event. From the moment of its outbreak, the gendered experiences of the war have been seen by contemporary observers and postwar commentators and scholars as being especially significant for shaping how the war can and must be understood. The negotiating of ideas about gender by women and men across vast reaches of the globe characterizes this modern, instrumental conflict. Over the past twenty-five years, as the scholarship on gender and this war has grown, there has never been a forum such as the one presented here that placed so many of the varying threads of this complex historiography into conversation with one another in a manner that is at once accessible and provocative. Given the vast literature on the war itself, scholarship on gender and various themes and topics provides students as well as scholars with a chance to think not only about the subject of the war but also the methodological implications of how historians have approached it. While many studies have addressed the national or transnational narrative of women in the war, none address both femininity and masculinity, and the experiences of both women and men across the same geographic scope as the studies presented in this volume.

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Oxford University Press

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0190271108

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Women and the First World War

By: Susan R. Grayzel

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Women and the First World War

By: Susan R. Grayzel

In this revised version of a ground-breaking global history of women and the First World War, Susan Grayzel shows the multiple ways in which women faced the enormous challenges the war presented, both the losses as well as the opportunities that the war provided. The First World War was a total war requiring the mobilisation of millions of both civilians and combatants. It decisively shaped the modern world. A century after the signing of the last peace treaty to end this conflict, its experiences and legacies for women continue to inspire debate and interest. With new evidence from the tremendous outpouring of scholarship on women in all participant states, including those in occupied territories, Europe and its overseas empires, Asia, the Middle East, Africa and the United States over the last twenty years, this edition greatly expands the coverage of the war geographically while continuing to showcase diverse women’s voices. Topical in its approach, it allows for a thorough exploration of the intersectional experiences of women. Including new documents highlighting the ways in which women wrote their wars and that detail the impact of this conflict on women of different statuses and geographies, this book opens the door to further inquiry on the women of the First World War. With documents providing first-hand accounts, a chronology and a glossary, the book is an ideal text for students studying the First World War or the history of women.

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Taylor & Francis

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1003824765

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9781003824763

The Oxford Dictionary of Architecture

By: James Stevens Curl,Susan Wilson

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The Oxford Dictionary of Architecture

By: James Stevens Curl,Susan Wilson

With over 6,000 entries, this is the most authoritative dictionary of architectural history available.

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0199674981

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Ladies of Influence

Women of the Elite in Interwar Britain

By: A. Susan Williams

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Ladies of Influence

Women of the Elite in Interwar Britain

By: A. Susan Williams

In the 1920s, when the franchise was extended to put women in Britain on an equal footing with men, it was still to be many years before women held positions of real power in their own right. But other channels of influence had always been open to some - those women of the social and political elite. Because of their class background, wealth and connections, such women were free of many of the restrictions placed on their sex. Indeed, were more powerful in many ways than most men. Ladies of Influence tells the fascinating stories of seven of these women and of their particular impact on Britain between the wars.

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