商品簡介
This volume is based on a September 2008 conference held at the U. of Leeds, UK; a follow-up editorial workshop took place at the Academy of Sciences in Budapest, April 2009. Editors Sharp (modern languages and cultures, German history, U. of Leeds) and Stibbe (modern European history, Sheffield Hallam U.) offer a substantial introduction to 18 essays contributed by academics based in Germany, the US, the UK, Hungary, Lithuania, Albania, Poland, and elsewhere. Arrangement is in thematic sections addressing commemoration, remembering, remobilization; the renegotiation of gender roles; women's suffrage and political rights; and reconstructing communities/visions of peace. A sampling of topics: the extension of war culture by radical nationalist women journalists in post-1918 Germany; the spinster in the post-war debate in Weimar Germany; feminisms in France (1918-1923); political and public aspects of the activity of the Lithuanian women's movement; and Elsa Brandstrom and the reintegration of returning prisoners of war in post-war Germany and Austria. Annotation c2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Ingrid Sharp MA (1989) in German and Philosophy, University of Oxford, is Senior Lecturer in German at the University of Leeds and Head of the Department of German, Russian and Slavonic Studies. She has published on aspects of the women's movement in Germany in international perspective and is co-editor with Alison Fell of The Women’s Movement in Wartime: International Perspectives, 1914-1919 (Palgrave April 2007).Matthew Stibbe, D.Phil (1997) in History, University of Sussex, is Reader in History at Sheffield Hallam University. He has published widely in the field of First World War studies and twentieth-century Germany, including Germany, 1914-1933: Politics, Society and Culture (Pearson, 2010).
