Women Activists Between War and Peace ─ Europe, 1918-1923

Women Activists Between War and Peace employs a transnational approach in exploring women's activism across the European continent in the years that followed the First World War. It brings together leading scholars in the field from the UK, the USA, Canada and Bulgaria to discuss aspects of women's activism in and individual female activists from Germany, Hungary, the UK, Finland, Bulgaria, Russia, Austria and Slovenia.

Following an introduction that helpfully outlines key concepts, such as democracy, suffrage, cultural demobilisation/remobilisation, militarism, pacifism and transnationalism, the book proceeds to examine the nature of women's activism through the prism of six key topics:

* Suffrage and nationalism
* Revolution and socialism
* Peace and human rights
* Journalism and print media
* Science, medicine and the technology of warfare
* The commemoration of the war dead

A timeline, illustrations and biographical sketches of key activists are included in the book, along with useful pedagogical features, such as a bibliography and a glossary. This is a vitally important text for all students of women's history, twentieth-century European history and the legacy of the First World War.

Ingrid Sharp is Senior Lecturer in German at the University of Leeds, UK. She is the editor of Aftermaths of War (co-edited with Matthew Stibbe, 2011) and The Women's Movement in Wartime (co-edited with Alison Fell, 2007).

Matthew Stibbe is Professor of Modern European History at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. He is the author of Germany, 1914-1933: Politics, Society and Culture (2010) and British Civilian Internees in Germany (2008). He is the editor of The 1989 Revolutions in Central and Eastern Europe (co-edited with Kevin McDermott, 2013), Aftermaths of War (co-edited with Ingrid Sharp, 2011) and Captivity, Forced Labour and Forced Migration in Europe During the First World War (2009).